Agriculture and the food sector are responsible for a large share of the environmental impacts and resource use caused by human activity. For certain environmental issues, such as the conservation of biodiversity, agriculture is the key driver.

Three are the main objectives of the meeting:
• to show recent developments in terms of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology,
approaches, databases and tools related to the agri-food sector;
• to present applications of the LCA methodology in new case studies or case studies
showing new aspects in various food- and raw material- chains (crop production, animal
husbandry, fish farming, feedstuff, bio energy, etc.);
• to present successful examples of communication of LCA results to stakeholders and
their use in decision making in the agri-food sector.