Sustainability Issues in Food Provisioning Systems

Sustainable Development in Practice: Case Studies for Engineers and Scientists

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 326-347

  Azapagic, Adisa ^a   Stichnothe, Heinz ^a,b   Espinoza Orias, Namy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b Institute of Wood Technology and Wood Biology   (Germany)

Author keywords

Challenges, along food supply chains; Food production systems, from 'cradle to grave' environmental issues in life cycle of food production; Food production, associated with wide range of environmental issues resource depletion, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, pollution, waste and loss of biodiversity; Global trends for meat and cereal production related use of water, fertilizers and pesticides; GWP from life cycle of chicken meat production (from 'cradle to gate'); GWP, from wheat cultivation in UK and Canada contribution of different life cycle stages; Life cycle of a loaf of bread life cycle of bread from 'cradle to grave'; Productivity of agricultural systems and content of nutrients in soil; sustainability issues in food provisioning systems; Sustainability issues for food production systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886004674     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470972847.ch11     Document Type: Chapter

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