Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Silage Maize in Relation to Regenerative Agriculture

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12220%2F24%3A43907367" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12220/24:43907367 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/2/481" target="_blank" >https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16/2/481</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su16020481" target="_blank" >10.3390/su16020481</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of Silage Maize in Relation to Regenerative Agriculture

Original language description

The demand for agricultural products is growing and is resulting in significant environmental impacts due to the overuse of fertilizers (and pesticides in some cases). There is a continued need to find sustainable methods in agricultural systems without harming the environment. Regenerative agriculture can be considered as one of the best methods of sustainable agriculture. The aim of this comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) study was to quantify the environmental impacts associated with the production of silage maize at different doses of fertilizers and pesticides under conventional agriculture and without the use of fertilizers and pesticides under regenerative agriculture. The input data were obtained from the experimental fields and supplemented by background process databases of Ecoinvent, World Food Live Cycle Assessment Database (WFLCD), and the French database AGRIBALYSE. The results of the study were related to six midpoint impact categories: global warming, marine eutrophication, freshwater eutrophication, freshwater ecotoxicity, marine ecotoxicity, and terrestrial ecotoxicity. Although the variant of growing silage maize without the use of fertilizers and pesticides according to the principle of regenerative agriculture showed the lowest burden on the environment, the yields of the cultivated silage maize were 43-55% lower than those of the fertilized variants.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

SUSTAINABILITY

ISSN

2071-1050

e-ISSN

2071-1050

Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

15

Pages from-to

1-15

UT code for WoS article

001151451200001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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