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Accounting for co-product use to capture the indirect effects of crop diversification with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

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Practice abstract “Accounting for co-product use to capture the indirect effects of crop diversification with Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)"

Author: Florence Van Stappen

Problem: Evaluating whether diversified cropping systems delivering multiple co-products are more sustainable than the specialised ones (reference) they replace requires looking at the use of all co-products along the value chain to the final user.

Solution: Substitutional LCA consists of expanding the boundaries of the system under study to include co-product use according to the market. This ensures comparable results and highlights potential trade-offs between environmental impacts.

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