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Meal planning under uncertainty: How shopping frequency affects food waste 不确定条件下的膳食计划:购物频率如何影响食物浪费
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-06-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.015
M.A. van Rooijen, J.C. Gerdessen, G.D.H. Claassen, S.L.J.M. de Leeuw
{"title":"Meal planning under uncertainty: How shopping frequency affects food waste","authors":"M.A. van Rooijen,&nbsp;J.C. Gerdessen,&nbsp;G.D.H. Claassen,&nbsp;S.L.J.M. de Leeuw","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.015","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.015","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Food waste is the undesired result of multiple household food management routines. To reduce this food waste, interventions typically promote either food waste prevention or food waste recovery behaviours. These behaviours can be contradictory when it comes to shopping practices. Food waste prevention strategies suggest shopping for multiple days at once to benefit from planning and coordinate food packages with the needs of several days, whereas food waste recovery advocates for more frequent shopping trips to account for the unpredictability of everyday life. This study isolates the impact of shopping frequencies on food waste, assessing its effects across varying levels of uncertainties related to who will be present for dinner. A mathematical meal planning model is formulated to generate dinner meal plans and shopping lists by selecting combinations of recipes while considering nutritional adequacy and package sizes. The model uses a rolling horizon approach to simulate meal planning for household situations that are facing varying uncertainties in ingredient needs. As a base case, the model is run over a 21-day horizon for a household of four persons. The analysis reveals a trade-off between the flexibility of frequent shopping and the benefits of coordinating food purchases. Households with higher uncertainty in food requirements benefit from more frequent shopping compared to those with more stable needs, with total food waste across shopping frequencies ranging from 0–52 grams, 46–300 grams, and 50–900 grams per 21-day horizon for low-, medium-, and high-uncertainty household profiles, respectively. Moreover, the findings show that food waste can be minimized to 3 grams per day across all uncertainty levels by selecting recipes based on the food items already in stock at home. These insights suggest that tailored shopping and meal planning strategies based on household uncertainty levels can substantially reduce food waste and inform targeted interventions.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":"Pages 403-412"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144263475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Multi-measure pathways for achieving carbon-neutral cement production 实现碳中和水泥生产的多措施途径
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.025
Garrett Clark, Matthew Davis, Amit Kumar
{"title":"Multi-measure pathways for achieving carbon-neutral cement production","authors":"Garrett Clark,&nbsp;Matthew Davis,&nbsp;Amit Kumar","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from cement production continue to rise, making it the second-largest source of industrial GHG emissions. In this study, we develop a framework to evaluate several decarbonization technologies and scenarios to achieve carbon-neutral cement production. A case study for Canada was conducted using this developed framework. Decarbonization technologies are grouped into six categories (energy efficiency, fuel switching, alternative raw materials, alternative binders and chemistries, carbon capture and storage, and cement carbonation) and each is evaluated using a bottom-up technology-explicit energy model. The results show that carbon-neutral cement production can be achieved before 2050 with marginal abatement costs of −17 to −34 CAD/t CO<sub>2</sub>e and cumulative GHG emissions reductions of 199–242 Mt. CO<sub>2</sub>e, based on a carbon price of 170 CAD/t CO<sub>2</sub> by 2030. The results are comparable to roadmaps from other jurisdictions but with some important distinctions. Canada continues to have a higher clinker/cement ratio and lower alternative fuel consumption than other jurisdictions, meaning carbon capture and storage is expected to play a larger role in reducing GHG emissions. Furthermore, carbon neutrality cannot be achieved without carbonation or a similar offset. Therefore, it is important that all cement-producing regions begin formalizing a framework to guide the calculation of carbonation impacts and compile the information to support those calculations. Finally, a sensitivity analysis concluded that carbon pricing is required in every carbon-neutral scenario to achieve negative GHG emissions abatement costs.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":"Pages 355-374"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Strengthening Social Life Cycle Assessment for a just bioeconomy: Insights from Namibia's bush-based value chains 为公正的生物经济加强社会生命周期评估:来自纳米比亚丛林价值链的见解
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-05-31 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.003
Susan van der Veen , Elisabeth van Rechteren Limpurg , Lotte Asveld , Sivaramakrishnan Chandrasekaran
{"title":"Strengthening Social Life Cycle Assessment for a just bioeconomy: Insights from Namibia's bush-based value chains","authors":"Susan van der Veen ,&nbsp;Elisabeth van Rechteren Limpurg ,&nbsp;Lotte Asveld ,&nbsp;Sivaramakrishnan Chandrasekaran","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The bioeconomy has the potential to contribute significantly to sustainable development and a just transition. To ensure the sustainable production of bio-based products, it is essential to understand their potential environmental, economic, and social impact. However, the social dimension receives far less attention in sustainability literature and assessments than the environmental and economic dimensions. Especially in the Global South, where a large part of the world's biomass is produced, vulnerable communities are at higher risk of being negatively affected by the bioeconomy. These risks include food insecurity, monoculture expansion, and unequal wealth distribution. Therefore, it is crucial to understand new bio-based value chains' (potential) social impacts better.</div><div>This paper contributes to this debate by developing a prospective Social Life Cycle Assessment (SLCA) for a bush-based value chain in Namibia. We assessed the existing charcoal value chain and identified potential social risks, impacts, and opportunities of a prospective value chain to produce marine biofuels from encroacher bush. We use this case study to reflect on the SLCA methodology and compare the SLCA results with our qualitative fieldwork based on interviews and a multi-stakeholder workshop. We found that the current methods for SLCA do not adequately capture salient aspects of the local context. SLCA is a good method to quantify some social impacts and to identify social risks in the value chain, such as labor conditions and existing policies. However, the methodology of SLCA currently misses a more nuanced understanding of the context and potential social issues, like issues related to gender and ethnicity, and the adherence to existing policies. We propose adding more context-specific indicators to the risk assessment. In addition, stakeholder engagement is crucial for identifying and assessing relevant social impact categories, and we advocate for incorporating local stakeholders' subjective assessments. This approach allows for the inclusion of softer social impact categories, such as gender and ethnicity-related social norms, which are not easily captured by general indicators.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":"Pages 198-212"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144195010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Strategic productive arrangements to leverage greenhouse gas emissions mitigation in the production of sustainable aviation fuels in Brazil 在巴西可持续航空燃料的生产中利用减少温室气体排放的战略生产性安排
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.023
Henrique Baeninger Pescarini , Cinthia Rubio Urbano da Silva , Gabriel Palma Petrielli , Mateus Ferreira Chagas , Henrique Real Guimarães , Jéssica Marcon Bressanin , Caroline da Silva , Daniele de Souza Henzler , Diogo Ardaillon Simões , Antonio Bonomi , Edvaldo Rodrigo de Morais , Thayse Aparecida Dourado Hernandes
{"title":"Strategic productive arrangements to leverage greenhouse gas emissions mitigation in the production of sustainable aviation fuels in Brazil","authors":"Henrique Baeninger Pescarini ,&nbsp;Cinthia Rubio Urbano da Silva ,&nbsp;Gabriel Palma Petrielli ,&nbsp;Mateus Ferreira Chagas ,&nbsp;Henrique Real Guimarães ,&nbsp;Jéssica Marcon Bressanin ,&nbsp;Caroline da Silva ,&nbsp;Daniele de Souza Henzler ,&nbsp;Diogo Ardaillon Simões ,&nbsp;Antonio Bonomi ,&nbsp;Edvaldo Rodrigo de Morais ,&nbsp;Thayse Aparecida Dourado Hernandes","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.023","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.023","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in aviation is challenging, making sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) a key solution. SAF can be produced from different feedstocks, being pertinent to carrying out a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) considering site-specific factors like biomass production and direct land use change (dLUC) to evaluate its climate mitigation potential. This study integrated feedstock yield modelling, georeferenced LCA and dLUC, and optimisation to identify sites minimising GHG emissions while meeting SAF demand at Brazil's three major airports. SAF carbon intensity ranged from −25.06 to 29.67 g CO<sub>2e</sub>.MJ<sup>−1</sup>, reflecting trade-offs between emissions, conversion technologies, and land use. Brazil's fossil jet fuel demand could be fully met with SAF using 2.4–5.6 Mha of the 18 Mha assessed, mitigating 3–7 Mt. of GHG. Scaling up for the entire study area, SAF could mitigate 101–160 Mt. CO<sub>2e</sub> (13 % of Brazil's Nationally Determined Contibution - NDC) and benefit the electricity matrix. The framework highlights the importance of regional factors in LCA and the need to address broader sustainability impacts regarding strategies for global warming mitigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":"Pages 262-276"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The emerging landscape of urban upcycling: Identifying manifestations and a typology for urban upcycling 城市升级循环的新兴景观:识别城市升级循环的表现形式和类型
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.020
Marco van Hees , Inge Oskam , Nancy Bocken
{"title":"The emerging landscape of urban upcycling: Identifying manifestations and a typology for urban upcycling","authors":"Marco van Hees ,&nbsp;Inge Oskam ,&nbsp;Nancy Bocken","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.020","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.020","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Urban areas provide a promising context for upcycling due to the concentration of consumers and existence of bulky waste resources. Hence, upcycling initiatives emerge across European cities, but little is known about their manifestations. Building on interviews with twenty-four stakeholders from the urban upcycling ecosystem and three focus groups sessions, a morphological model was created with internal and external business model characteristics to analyse a database of 172 collected Dutch urban upcycling initiatives in the furniture and interior sector. The morphological analysis led to eleven urban upcycling manifestations with distinct business model characteristics that make up five generic categories and a landscape of urban upcycling which facilitate future research into the topic. A research agenda to study quantitative implications, regional differences, collaborative experimentation and scaling strategies of urban upcycling is proposed. Practically, the typology may facilitate policy makers and practitioners to create, scale or accelerate urban upcycling initiatives.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":"Pages 341-354"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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“Thought for food”: A systematic review of how psychological state factors affect sustainable food outcomes “食物的思想”:对心理状态因素如何影响可持续食物结果的系统回顾
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.022
Louise Glenisson, Lotte Hallez, Tim Smits
{"title":"“Thought for food”: A systematic review of how psychological state factors affect sustainable food outcomes","authors":"Louise Glenisson,&nbsp;Lotte Hallez,&nbsp;Tim Smits","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Given the harmful environmental, social, and economic impacts of our current food system, it is essential to develop a comprehensive understanding of how to effectively shift consumers towards more sustainable food options. Since consumers' psychological state variables are highly susceptible to change, identifying those that significantly influence sustainable food outcomes (i.e., attitudes, intentions, behaviours) is crucial for both policymakers and marketing professionals.</div><div>Therefore, this review synthesises scientific research on consumers' psychological state variables and examines how these variables influence sustainable food outcomes. In doing so, this review includes a wide range of sustainable food types, covering environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability. A systematic search across three online databases (Web of Science, PubMed, and Scopus) for quantitative and qualitative studies resulted in 290 relevant articles for full-text analysis.</div><div>Eight dimensions of highly researched psychological states were identified: Attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, perceived barriers and resources, pro-social values, individualistic values, self-identity, and emotions. Relevant for intervention communications, we found strong evidence for the positive effect of specific attitudes (e.g., attitude towards meat alternatives) but not for more general pro-environmental attitudes. There was also strong evidence for an association between knowledge and sustainable food outcomes. Additionally, research gaps were identified, especially with regards to plant-based eating as findings indicate that some consumers hold beliefs about the healthfulness, price and needed cooking skills of plant-based diets that potentially negatively influence consumer outcomes.</div><div>Overall, this paper identifies key opportunities for policymakers and marketing professionals to encourage sustainable food outcomes among consumers, such as designing educational campaigns to address misconceptions, or creating visually appealing packaging that enhances product visibility and communicates its value.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":"Pages 277-291"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144222836","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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A systems approach the Circular Economy: Policy recommendations to increase building components reuse 循环经济的系统方法:增加建筑构件再利用的政策建议
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.019
Lucia Corsini
{"title":"A systems approach the Circular Economy: Policy recommendations to increase building components reuse","authors":"Lucia Corsini","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.019","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.019","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Building Components Reuse is a promising Circular Economy approach that can help to tackle the sector's rising waste production, energy consumption and material shortages. However, there remains limited widespread implementation of Building Components Reuse and policy makers still lack understanding about how related policies should be developed and implemented within the sector. To address this, the study uses the literature to develop a detailed Causal Loop Diagram that shows the interrelated factors enabling and constraining Building Components Reuse. Twelve leverage points and related policy recommendations are identified from the Causal Loop Diagram, which are then evaluated with policy and government stakeholders in the UK. The findings highlight the need for more robust standards and guidance on the design and quality assessment of building components for reuse, the enforcement of financial incentives and related reuse targets, and the development of technology-based solutions for the effective evaluation, recovery and traceability of building components. The study also finds that industry education and awareness, establishing consistent protocols for sustainability assessment of Building Components Reuse and public procurement strategies can increase the adoption of Building Components Reuse practices. Further collaboration between government and industry is recommended to establish their respective roles and responsibilities in developing Circular Economy policies and practices. Overall, it is likely that a range of policies and supporting mechanisms are needed to enable Building Components Reuse. Further research could address the development of Building Components Reuse policies in relation to other Circular Economy strategies such as adaptive reuse and recycling.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":"Pages 292-305"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Assessing agri-food products circularity by using the material circularity and circular flow indices 利用物料循环度和循环流量指标评价农产品循环度
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.017
Harrison Tetteh , Mercè Balcells , Alba Bala , Pere Fullana-i-Palmer , María Margallo , Rubén Aldaco , Rita Puig
{"title":"Assessing agri-food products circularity by using the material circularity and circular flow indices","authors":"Harrison Tetteh ,&nbsp;Mercè Balcells ,&nbsp;Alba Bala ,&nbsp;Pere Fullana-i-Palmer ,&nbsp;María Margallo ,&nbsp;Rubén Aldaco ,&nbsp;Rita Puig","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.017","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.017","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Enhancing circularity in agri-food systems improves resource efficiency by reducing inputs like fertilisers or pesticides, and food waste, while lowering environmental impacts. However, there is no consensus on which circularity indicators best suit this sector.</div><div>This study is the first to jointly apply the Material Circularity Indicator (MCI) and Circular Flow Index (CFI) to assess the circularity of a biological product, chicken meat. They were selected for their complementarity: MCI provides a broader assessment of material efficiency, considering recycled content and recycling rate of products and wastes, while CFI emphasises internal recirculation and closed-loop recycling. Therefore, sourcing chicken feed and reusing manure within the same farm increases circularity scores under CFI.</div><div>The study also compares for the first time the circularity of two meat packaging systems with varying shelf lives and food waste percentages: System A (15-day shelf life, 15 % food waste) compared to System B (6-day shelf life, 47 % food waste). Results show that only MCI captured the significant difference in food waste (15 % vs. 47 % food waste) when product lifetimes were integrated into its utility factor. This highlights MCI's sensitivity to product longevity. Integrating carbon footprint measurement further revealed significant environmental differences between the two systems, underlining the need to combine circularity indicators with life cycle-based indicators for better decision-making.</div><div>The proposed framework—combining MCI, CFI, and life cycle indicators—offers a more holistic approach to measuring circularity in biological systems. Further research is recommended to test new case studies and adapt existing circularity indicators. The goal is to establish a small, user-friendly set of complementary indicators tailored to the agri-food sector's unique challenges, thereby supporting more circular practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":"Pages 246-261"},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144223525","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Evaluating the sustainability and leverage potential of innovative organic farming systems 评估创新有机农业系统的可持续性和杠杆潜力
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-05-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.021
Michael den Herder , Sally Westaway , Lisa Arguile , Rowan Dumper-Pollard , Robert Borek , Tomasz Żyłowski , Alina Syp , Andrea Pisanelli , Claudia Consalvo , Marco Ciolfi , Deborah Lorenzoni , Mignon Șandor , Adrian Gliga , Hilde Wustenberghs , Alba Alonso-Adame , Rosario Michel-Villarreal , Timokleia Orfanidou , Nicola Noble , Valerie Holzner , Nicklas Riekötter , Laurence Smith
{"title":"Evaluating the sustainability and leverage potential of innovative organic farming systems","authors":"Michael den Herder ,&nbsp;Sally Westaway ,&nbsp;Lisa Arguile ,&nbsp;Rowan Dumper-Pollard ,&nbsp;Robert Borek ,&nbsp;Tomasz Żyłowski ,&nbsp;Alina Syp ,&nbsp;Andrea Pisanelli ,&nbsp;Claudia Consalvo ,&nbsp;Marco Ciolfi ,&nbsp;Deborah Lorenzoni ,&nbsp;Mignon Șandor ,&nbsp;Adrian Gliga ,&nbsp;Hilde Wustenberghs ,&nbsp;Alba Alonso-Adame ,&nbsp;Rosario Michel-Villarreal ,&nbsp;Timokleia Orfanidou ,&nbsp;Nicola Noble ,&nbsp;Valerie Holzner ,&nbsp;Nicklas Riekötter ,&nbsp;Laurence Smith","doi":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.021","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.021","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Modern agriculture has advanced food security but at an environmental cost. Organic farming and agroforestry have been proposed as alternatives, however, evaluating their sustainability is challenging due to heterogeneity of the sector, a relatively small number of sustainability assessments carried out and lack of user-friendly assessment tools. Holistic sustainability analyses, including ecosystem services provided by farms, are essential to evaluate food and farming systems and inform policies.</div><div>In this study, we aim to identify key characteristics of innovative organic case study farms and evaluate how innovative organic farms compare across multiple dimensions of sustainability. In addition, the study aims to identify key leverage points within these farming systems and evaluate how these influence sustainability performance in environmental, economic, social and governance domains. Farm performance was evaluated using the Public Goods tool which is a sustainability assessment tool for evaluating different aspects of sustainability at the farm level.</div><div>The findings from eight organic farming case studies showed good sustainability performance in most of the examined sustainability aspects, with areas for improvement in energy, carbon, and water management. The farms scored highly in farm business resilience, system diversity, social capital and soil management. There was a strong positive relationship between “farm business resilience” (e.g. sources of farm income, satisfaction with farming system) and “social capital” (e.g. training of farm workers and community involvement) suggesting a possible relationship between financial and economic factors and social wellbeing.</div><div>In addition, all case study farms demonstrated a clear objective for their operations and a strong vision for enhancing sustainability. This was reflected in their high scores for the leverage point categories of ‘design’ and ‘intent’. To achieve their objectives, farmers proactively sought knowledge to guide system design decisions. They also engaged in knowledge sharing, social and community engagement through networks, and direct marketing to inform and ‘reconnect’ peers with food and farming systems, while reducing reliance on long supply chains.</div><div>Future research and rural policy should work together and focus on how to operationalize holistic sustainability assessment and key leverage points to make farms and rural communities more sustainable and resilient to both expected and unexpected challenges.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48619,"journal":{"name":"Sustainable Production and Consumption","volume":"57 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":10.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144253856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Opportunities to mitigate process-related greenhouse gas emissions in global trade networks 在全球贸易网络中减少与生产过程有关的温室气体排放的机会
IF 10.9 1区 环境科学与生态学
Sustainable Production and Consumption Pub Date : 2025-05-29 DOI: 10.1016/j.spc.2025.05.016
Simin Xu , Yunan Peng , Kejia Yan , Mengyao Han , Bo Zhang
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