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Environmental impact of the most representative Spanish olive oil farming systems: A life cycle assessment study

dc.contributor.authorFernández-Lobato, Lázuli
dc.contributor.authorRuiz-Carrasco, Beatriz
dc.contributor.authorTostado-Véliz, Marcos
dc.contributor.authorJurado, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorVera, David
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-10T12:26:57Z
dc.date.available2025-01-10T12:26:57Z
dc.date.issued2024-02-25
dc.description.abstractAgricultural production is an essential activity in the global economy that must advance towards the design of sustainability projects hand-in-hand with consumers, companies, and policymakers. An exhaustive study, in line with the guidelines set by government entities, is required to quantify this impact in an ample spectrum of environmental categories. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is a powerful tool that enables obtaining such information, as other authors have already demonstrated in different sectors. This study employs LCA to determine the environmental impact of virgin olive oil production, considering different agricultural and industrial production systems in Spain. For this purpose, a wide range of cultivated olive tree crops and different types of olive oil mill facilities in Andalusia have been studied-the territory of Spain with the highest dedication to olive oil production. This area has a strong emphasis on developing projects within this economic sector. The study focuses on olives, virgin olive oil and hectares of cultivation land, adopting a “cradle-to-gate” approach, and including economic allocation, considering the main processes related to its production in the agricultural and industrial phases. The study time covers the five most recent harvests (2017/18 to 2021/22) to obtain appropriate and updated environmental impact values. The results from the study time indicate that higher densification, irrigation, and slope crops lead to a higher environmental impact. Specifically, the climate change category of the functional unit ranges between 1.90 (low yield crops) and 6.09 kg of CO2 equivalent (super-intensive irrigated), while in the most representative cases, extensive crops, it results in 2.90 (rainfed) and 3.49 (irrigated) kg of CO2 equivalent. It should be noted that this study breaks new ground by thoroughly assessing the environmental impact of different olive oil production methods in Spain. It offers unique insights into sustainability within this vital sector, addressing a significant gap in current research.es_ES
dc.identifier.citationL. Fernández-Lobato, B. Ruiz-Carrasco, M. Tostado-Véliz, F. Jurado, D. Vera, Environmental impact of the most representative Spanish olive oil farming systems: A life cycle assessment study, Journal of Cleaner Production, Volume 442, 2024, 141169, ISSN 0959-6526, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141169.es_ES
dc.identifier.issn0959-6526es_ES
dc.identifier.other10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.141169es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652624006164es_ES
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10953/3834
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherElsevieres_ES
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Cleaner Production [2024]; [442]: [141169]es_ES
dc.rightsAtribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España*
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/*
dc.subjectLife cycle assessmentes_ES
dc.subjectEnvironmental impactes_ES
dc.subjectClimate changees_ES
dc.subjectOlive oil productiones_ES
dc.titleEnvironmental impact of the most representative Spanish olive oil farming systems: A life cycle assessment studyes_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.type.versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersiones_ES

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