Open Footprinting & LCA Trainings

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Open Footprinting Trainings

We offer various online expert trainings, offering you a blend of theory, hands-on exercises, and case studies, providing you and your team with practical and actionable knowledge which will help you to implement footprinting best practices into your work. 

Foundations of Agri-food LCA

One Day Online Training

The Foundations of Agri-food LCA training guides you through all the steps required to perform a Life Cycle Assessment for agricultural and food products. It begins with exploring the relation between food production and sustainability, the existing challenges, and the related environmental impacts. The concept of planetary boundaries is used as the basis to understand the multifaceted nature of many of the discussed environmental issues. Then, Life Cycle Assessment is introduced by explaining the key concepts and terminology, and the most relevant standards and methodologies for the agri-food landscape. All theoretical aspects are supported by examples and exercises throughout the session (although the full day training provides more examples and case studies, as compared to the half day training).

After this training, you will be well-oriented in the world of Life Cycle Assessment and you will be able to understand and interpret the environmental impacts of agri-food systems.

Crop Cultivation

Half Day Online Training

The Crop Cultivation training provides all the necessary knowledge to perform Life Cycle Assessment studies of crops, including arable crops, horticulture, and floriculture. The training includes methodological insights, practical examples, and an overview of the most relevant standards (FloriPEFCR, FreshProduce shadow PEFCR, Hortifootprint Category Rules).

First, the training builds upon basic LCA knowledge to elaborate on how to tackle the analysis of crop cultivation by looking at direct emissions modelling, agricultural data requirements, data sampling, and impact assessment methods. The content is accompanied by case studies and exercises to increase comprehension. Tools that can be used to facilitate the implementation of LCA for crop cultivation are also shown. The training concludes with a look at some of the most interesting strategies for reducing the impacts of crop cultivation.

Animal Production Systems

Full Day Online Training

The Animal Production Systems training is an interactive training that focuses on the on-farm production of animal products, which is typically the hotspot of animal-based consumer products. It analyses the production of swine, poultry, cattle and aqua products from a lifecycle perspective starting from the recognized standards used for LCAs in this domain, to the step-by-step execution of a life cycle assessment, while touching upon the expected hotspots and typical system interventions. At least basic LCA knowledge is expected from the participants, as LCA concepts will be used and discussed during the training. With the tools provided by this training, participants with knowledge of animal production systems (e.g. nutritionists, vets, among others) will be able to review, interpret, and perform life cycle assessments (if they have access to the necessary LCA modelling tools and data).

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