The projects listed here have been completed and are not being extended. They remain listed here for the sake of completeness.
World Food LCA Database
Harmonisation and Expansion of Bioenergy LCIs and LCAs
Sustainability Assessment of Milk Production
Climate-Optimised Adaptation Strategies in Agriculture’
The ‘World Food LCA Database’ (WFLDB) Project was launched by Agroscope and Quantis at the start of 2012. The aim of WFLDB was to develop a data corpus to support companies, environmental agencies and scientists with processes such as environmental product declaration and eco-design. Several hundred life cycle inventories were created, and Phase 2 of the Project was concluded in 2020.
In this project, the bioenergy data in the ecoinvent database was updated, harmonised and expanded in view of current developments in agriculture and in energy conversion. The inventories for plant production and bioenergy were revised and harmonised with respect to their greenhouse gas emissions and are contained in version 3 of the ecoinvent database.
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The dairy sector is making various efforts to increase the sustainability of milk production. Selected measures were examined in terms of their potential for improving the sustainability of Swiss milk production. The majority of the measures had a positive effect on the three pillars of sustainability, although some measures caused trade-offs and the impact of others depended upon the framework conditions.
At the South Westphalia University of Applied Sciences in Soest, Germany, the environmental impacts of three cropping systems differing in terms of crop-rotation design, tillage intensity and fertilisation were studied by means of life cycle assessments. The cropping systems were tested in field trials at the Soest and Braunschweig sites. Environmental impacts were quantified and opportunities for improvement investigated with the SALCA life cycle assessment method. The aim was to develop a cropping system that is optimised in terms of climate impact, whilst taking account of the full range of environmental impacts.
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