Abstract
AGRIBALYSE is a French research program dedicated to producing Life cycle inventories (LCI) of agricultural products, based on a strong partnership of 14 research and technical institutes. It provides a homogenous and consensual LCI database to support environmental labelling policies and to help the agricultural sector to improve its practices. The public LCI database of more than 100 products and its detailed methodology report were published in 2014. The database mainly contains LCIs for average French products, the functional unit is the product mass (kg) and the perimeter cradle-to–farm-gate. The datasets go along with a detailed methodology report and a project report, both available at: www.ademe.fr/agribalyse). Several key objectives for a follow-up project have already been identified: better estimate of uncertainties, accounting for soil carbon dynamics, impacts on biodiversity and impacts of water consumption. Enlargement of the database with additional products and products from innovative systems is also demanded, as well as stronger connections with international programs. These issues should be addressed in a future AGRIBALYSE 2 program.
Highlights
AGRIBALYSE is a French research program (2010–2013) dedicated to producing public Life Cycle Inventories (LCI) of agricultural products
AGRIBALYSE started in 2010, in response to the “Grenelle de l’Environnement” roundtables which decided on the use of Life cycle assessment (LCA) to support environmental labelling
The LCA approach was seen as a tool to support farmers and their organisations to better identify the environmental impacts of their products and to support ecodesign strategies to improve their production systems
Summary
AGRIBALYSE is a French research program (2010–2013) dedicated to producing public Life Cycle Inventories (LCI) of agricultural products. A database of more than 100 products and its detailed methodological report have been published in 2014 (Koch and Salou, 2014). AGRIBALYSE started in 2010, in response to the “Grenelle de l’Environnement” roundtables which decided on the use of Life cycle assessment (LCA) to support environmental labelling. A lack of LCA results and especially homogenous ones was identified concerning French agricultural productions (Ecointesys, 2008). A strong partnership of 14 research and technical institutes (INRA, Agroscope, CIRAD, ACTA and 10 agricultural technical institutes) worked together to build a homogenous and consensual LCI database for French, as well as a few imported agricultural products
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