Methodologies

Multiple cropping is a practice, where a plot of land is subsequently planted with varying crops and harvested multiple times in a year. In the Land Use Change (LUC) methodology this has not been considered yet, leading to inaccurate LUC emission calculations. Therefore, we’ve investigated the opportunities to include multiple cropping and make more fair calculations, by applying the ‘Crop System Efficiency Index’. 

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.