Applying life cycle assessment to European high nature value farming systems: Environmental impacts and biodiversity

M. Torres-Miralles, V. Kyttä, P. Jeanneret, M. Lamminen, P. Manzano, H.L. Tuomisto and I. Herzon

Agricultural Systems, 2024, vol. 220, issue C

Abstract: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) remains a method of choice for assessing the environmental performance of agricultural systems. However, it is rarely applied to multifunctional extensive production systems, in which livestock use, apart from animal production, maintains a continuous disturbance that sustains the diversity of habitats and species.

Keywords: Global warming potential; Land occupation; Water scarcity; Semi-natural habitats; Ruminant production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2024.104096

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