Assessing the sustainability of the US food system: a life cycle perspective

By M. Heller, Gregory A. Keoleian. 2003

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‘Sustainable de-growth’ in agriculture and food: an agro-ecological perspective on Spain’s agri-food system (year 2000) (2013, background): “The environmental pressures exertedon the rest of the agri-foodchain canbemuchmore severe (Dutilh and Kramer, 2000; Heller and Keoelian, 2002, 2003) and, as a consequence, a coherent policy for the promotion of sustainable agrarian systems must take the entire agri-food process into consideration.”
Sustainable food consumption: an overview of contemporary issues and policies (2013, background): “…Summer 2013 | Volume 9 | Issue 2 terms of energy use, agricultural production is responsible for about 30% of the food sector’s total energy demands (Owen et al. 2007), 40% of which result from the production of chemical fertilizers and synthetic pesticides (Heller & Keoleian, 2003).”
Local Food Systems: Concepts, Impacts, and Issues (2012, background): “energy consumption (Canning et al., 2010; Heller and Keoleian, 2003), and much of this energy is derived from burning fossil fuels that release carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases (GHG).”
Life cycle assessment of the average Spanish diet including human excretion (2010, background): “... stages of their life cycle (farming, processing, packaging, transports, home processing and storage, and waste management), some authors have also studied the environmental impacts of food supply from a diet perspective, either for identification of the most polluting food items or for compariso”
Firm size and sustainable performance in food supply chains: Insights from Greek SMEs (2014, background): “Product conservation time is closely correlated with the amount of waste generated by actors in the food supply chain (Heller & Keoleian, 2003), and is to some extent dependent on storage and delivery conditions.”
Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research (2008, background): “…describe a food system as a chain of activities from production (‘the field) to consumption (‘the table’), with particular emphasis on processing and marketing and the multiple transformations of food that these entail (Heller and Keoleian, 2003; Dixon, 1999; Cannon, 2002; Lang and Heasman, 2004).”
Measuring the Sustainability of the Food Supply Chain: A Case Study of the UK (2007, background): “…food system have been developed, such as: system of provision (Fine et al., 1996; Green & Foster, 2005; Tansey & Worsley, 1995), product lifecycle (Heller & Keoleian, 2003), industrial ecosystem (Hardy & Graedel, 2002; Wirsenius, 2003) and food supply chain (Barrett et al., 1999; Marsden et al.,…”