Environmental sustainability of pasta production chains: An integrated approach for comparing local and global chains

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Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Recchia, Lucia ^a   Cappelli, Alessio ^b   Cini, Enrico ^b   Pegna, Francesco Garbati ^a   Boncinelli, Paolo ^b  

^a GUGLIELMO MARCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ancient grains; Durum wheat environmental sustainability; Environmental impacts analysis; Life Cycle Assessment (LCA); Pasta production

Indexed keywords

EID: 85064177344     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20799276     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/resources8010056     Document Type: Article

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