Environmental assessment: For improvements and communication in organic and low input dairy systems
WP leader: John Hermansen, University of Aarhus, dep. of Agroecology, Denmark Email: John.Hermansen@agrsci.dk
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ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT Summary deliverable 4.1. SOLID
Objectives of work package 4
This WP builds up a knowledge platform on assessing environmental sustainability for a range of different European organic and low input dairy chains, including regional and local chains and dairy chains originating outside Europe.
Specifically the following objectives are set:
- To develop and apply Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) based tools for producing conventional and novel indicators for environmental sustainability assessment of diverse multi-functional dairy systems (process approach)
- To identify the sustainability hot spots in important low input and organic dairy chains (system approach)
- To integrate the LCA approach to other sustainability indicators used in chain approaches
- To analyse the eco-efficiency and sustainability gains from innovations at the farm and chain level (policy approach).