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Developing sound tools for transition to sustainable food and agriculture

Year of publication 2016

Pages 24 p.

Author Camillo De Camillis, Monikka Agarwal, Pablo Manzano, Nicolas Martin

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-109522-5

Series number VERSION 1

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The LEAP life cycle assessment (LCA) guidelines are intended to create a level playing field among stakeholders in order to promote better environmental management at the level of farms and other organizations involved in livestock product supply chains. The idea was to design guideline that, relying on the LCA attributional modelling approach, would drive environmental improvement by monitoring and benchmarking over time the environmental performance of the production systems involved.

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