LCAFDB — A crowdsourced life cycle assessment database for food

Abstract

This paper presents LCAFDB, a crowdsourced database for collecting Life Cycle Assessment data for foodstuff. Such an open database is useful to facilitate the development of feedback systems about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for food. We describe the design challenges encountered while we developed the system and our solutions. We also exemplify by a number of applications developed that use this database.