Data Availability for Carbon Calculators in Measuring GHG Emissions Produced by the Food Sector

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 392-407

  Amani, Pegah ^a   Schiefer, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Carbon calculator; Food chain; GHG emission; LCA databases

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873819749     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18696945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18461/ijfsd.v2i4.244     Document Type: Article

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