Environmental Footprinting Solutions for Food Systems
Make footprinting actionable
Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk is a leading international expert in food system sustainability, inspiring and enabling the agri-food sector to give shape to sustainability. Our purpose is to create a sustainable and healthy planet for current and future generations.
We support organizations understand their environmental impact in the agri-food value chain by offering advice and developing tailored data and software solutions based on the latest scientific developments and data.
Meet the team
Our growing team includes agri-food and sustainability experts, software engineers, and footprint data and methodology specialists.
Our work is centered around high-quality data and Life Cycle Assessment methodologies essential for a sustainable agri-food sector.
We provide independent and actionable insights via advice, facts & figures, and tailored data and software solutions. We do this based on the best available science, data, and standards and a transparent, reliable, hands-on approach.
How we can support you to make environmental footprinting actionable
Product/Company Footprinting & LCA studies
Footprint methodology & standard development
Footprint & LCA Data
solutions
Sustainability software
solutions
LCA & footprinting
training
Sustainable Nutrition research projects
Examples of our footprinting work
LCA study
Quantifying the sustainability of an innovation in strawberries
We conducted an LCA of Limore One, an innovative strawberry variety from Limgroup. The results support Limgroup with validation of the sustainability benefits and identify hotspots for further improvement.
LCA Methodology Development
Measuring coffee’s impact: New harmonized footprint guidelines released
The shadow coffee PEFCR offers sector-specific guidance to help coffee companies produce transparent, reliable environmental footprint studies that meet EU standards and drive sustainability across the supply chain.
Digital Solution
Enabling Rabobank to support horticulture growers in calculating their CO2-footprints
Discover how FastCrop™ Footprint helps Rabobank streamline CO2 footprint calculations, collect primary data for growers, and offer expert advice to reduce emissions effectively for the horticulture sector.
LCA methodology development
Integration of Biodiversity Metrics in Life Cycle Assessment methodology
The global food system is an important contributor to the global environmental crises through resource-intensive practices, contributing to habitat destruction and biodiversity loss. Addressing the urgent need for quantifying biodiversity loss in Life Cycle Assessment, Blonk and PBL connect a biodiversity metric to LCA.
Digital solution
Carbon footprint tool for seafood sector
For Seafish, UK's public body supporting the UK seafood sector, we developed a sector Carbon Footprint Tool. The tool enables UK seafood businesses (wildcapture and aquaculture to calculate product carbon footprints and gain insights to supply chain improvements.
Data solution
Agri-footprint
Advancing sustainability in the agri-food sector requires accurate and precise information. Blonk developed the Agri-footprint database to provide a thorough and consistent life cycle inventory (LCI) database for the agriculture and food sector. The database is widely used and implemented by the food industry, the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) community, the scientific community, and governments worldwide.
capacity building
Footprinting & LCA Expert Trainings
Transition towards a more sustainable future with our comprehensive trainings. Design specifically for the agri-food sector, our environmental footprinting trainings blend theory, hands-on exercises and case studies to equip you with actionable knowledge to implement environmental footprinting practices in your work.
Distinctive value
Providing you with actionable insights in environmental impacts over the entire lifecycle of a product
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International leader in Food System Sustainability
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Pioneers in Environmental Footprint Management in the agri-food sector
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Comprehensive solutions: consultancy, software and data
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Rooted in Life Cycle Thinking approach
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Supporting the entire Food System Value Chain
Together we can pave the road to a sustainable and healthy planet
Our multidisciplinary team helps you make value chain footprint management actionable. We support you with your first Life Cycle Assessment research, build sustainability capacity within your organization and organize life cycle training for employees. We can also support you by creating technical infrastructure to automate LCAs or create tailor-made environmental calculation tools. We can go even further by connecting our tools with your organization's data management ecosystem, making environmental footprint management your business practice.
Environmental footprinting
Conducting Product or Corporate Life Cycle Assessments and Carbon footprint studies
Environmental standards development
Harmonizing environmental calculation rules for sectors and industries
Sustainability Target Setting
Helping you set sustainability targets and reduce your GHG emissions
Sustainable diets
Research into futureproof diets that are both healthy and sustainable
Capacity building: training & courses
Knowledge transfer to accelerate sustainable development
Secondment: Interim LCA Support
Growing the sustainability capacity within your organization and making our experts part of your team
Tailor-made environmental calculation tools
Gaining insights into the environmental performance of your products
Sustainability software solutions
Tailor-made and ready-to-use solutions to evaluate the environmental impact of agri-food systems
Environmental databases
Development of reliable, qualitative environmental (LCA) databases, such as Agri-footprint
Environmental data development
Development of high-quality (LCA) environmental datasets for environmental analysis
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