Development of an indicator of soil quality to evaluate the ecological sustainability of the use of lignocellulosic agricultural streems in the Flemish bioeconomy Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Life Cycle Assessments or LCAs were originally designed to evaluate the sustainability of the fossil fuel based industry. Since the 1990s, the method has been applied to food products to calculate the ecological footprint of a product and its packaging. Subsequently, entire agricultural production systems were also studied, which revealed the difficulty in evaluating their environmental ...