Agri-footprint is a new life cycle inventory database that focuses on the agriculture and food sector. The goal of this database is to support life cycle assessment practitioners to perform high quality assessments. The database contains a methodologically consistent dataset for a large number of crops, crop products, animal systems and animal products. These inventories can be used as secondary data in LCAs. Non-LCA models were used to calculate a wide array of elementary flows (such as land use change, water use, fertilizer application rates), to support assessment on a multitude of environmental issues. To safeguard relevance and data quality, the database will be updated regularly. As the public interest in food LCAs is expected to increase in the near future, Agri-footprint will be a helpful resource for practitioners in this field.
