Food and life cycle energy inputs: consequences of diet and ways to increase efficiency

By A. Carlsson-kanyama, M. Ekström, Helena Shanahan. 2003

381 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/82e2d6f1d146c7ea952b84fc8a579464f01f00b8

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Ecology

In Environmental Engineering

In Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

Citations in the corpus

Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues (2012, background): “Total energy use and emissions are affected by differences in inputs used in each segment in the food supply chain (Carlsson-Kanyama et al., 2003), production practices and natural endowments (Saunders, et al., 2006), and crop yields and fertilizer use (Kim and Dale, 2008; Lehuger et al., 2009).”
How much land is needed for global food production under scenarios of dietary changes and livestock productivity increases in 2030 (2010, background): “…beneficial effects of changes in food consumption patterns, primarily in substituting vegetable for animal food – recent examples include Gerbens-Leenes and Nonhebel (2002), Smil (2002), Carlsson-Kanyama et al. (2003), de Boer et al. (2006), Elferink and Nonhebel (2007) and Stehfest et al. (2009).”
Diet shifts towards meat and the effects on cereal use: can we feed the animals in 2030? (2005, background): “are required (as in Carlsson-Kanyama et al. (2003) for fresh pork”
Local food, food miles and carbon emissions: a comparison of farm shop and mass distribution approaches. (2009, methodology): “Various tools have been brought to bear to analyse the problems of sustainable agriculture, the chosen method often primarily depending on the way sustainability is viewed and the background of the investigator (Leach, 1976; Cormack and Metcalfe, 2000; Carlsson-Kanyama et al., 2003; Costanza et al.,”
Food miles: Do UK consumers actually care? (2010, methodology): “Life cycle assessment is a tool used to assess the environmental impacts of production systems and services, accounting for emissions and resource uses during production, distribution, use/consumption and disposal of a product (Hertwich, 2005; Carlsson-Kanyama et al., 2003; Brentrup et al., 2004).”
Forced Choice Restriction in Promoting Sustainable Food Consumption: Intended and Unintended Effects of the Mandatory Vegetarian Day in Helsinki Schools (2013, background): “…the share of vegetables in the diet significantly reduces the environmental impact of food production (Baroni et al. 2007; Carlsson-Kanyama 1998; Carlsson-Kanyama et al. 2003; Carlsson-Kanyama and Gonzales 2009; Duchin 2005; Gonzalez et al. 2011; Pimentel and Pimentel 2003; Reijnders and Soret…”
Energy Intensity of Agriculture and Food Systems (2011, background): “(30) demonstrated that open-field tomatoes shipped from southern Europe to Sweden were more energy efficient than tomatoes produced in Swedish greenhouses.”
Is Local Food More Environmentally Friendly? The GHG Emissions Impacts of Consuming Imported versus Domestically Produced Food (2014, background): “Carlsson-Kanyama et al. (2003) argue that the production system can be an important contributor to total energy inputs as indicated in the comparison between Swedish greenhouse produced tomatoes (66 MJ/kg) and open grown Southern European tomatoes (5.4 MJ/kg).”
Greenhouse gas emissions of self-selected individual diets in France: Changing the diet structure or consuming less? (2012, background): “…on typified diets (Baroni et al., 2007; Carlsson-Kanyama and Gonzalez, 2009; Reijnders and Soret, 2003) or on average food consumption patterns (Carlsson-Kanyama et al., 2003; Macdiarmid et al., 2011; Risku-Norja et al., 2009; Tukker et al., 2011; Wallén et al., 2004) and do not consider the…”