Agricultural, fisheries, and livestock systems play a vital role in biodiversity conservation, biogenic carbon balance and sequestration, and generate value across local and global economies. However, according to IPCC’s Special Report on Climate Change, Desertification, Land Degradation, Sustainable Land Management, Food Security, and Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Terrestrial Ecosystems, agriculture is responsible for approximately 23% of all human-induced greenhouse gas emissions.
Understanding the many impacts of the processes involved in this sector, of which greenhouse gas emissions are included, can help organizations choose more sustainable outcomes in their value chains.
To achieve a better understanding, ecoinvent data is used by industries, researchers, and policymakers to form a robust foundation for environmental assessments, innovation, and evidence-based decision-making.
In our latest video, which you can watch below, our agriculture, fisheries, and animal husbandry sector experts at ecoinvent, Francesco Cirone and Andreas Giakoumatos, provide an overview of the ecoinvent database and its developments.
Our database contains over two thousand datasets for agriculture, fisheries, and animal husbandry, covering over four thousand unit processes. This sector plays a central role in ensuring food security, nutrition, and human health, and includes more than 1,200 datasets for crops, more than 900 datasets for fertilizers, pesticides, machinery related to agriculture and irrigation, and almost 200 datasets for animal husbandry and fisheries. This data supports life cycle assessments for various products and services, enabling sustainable decision-making in the value chain.
Within the sector, and of great importance to scientific impact assessments, are several main challenges, such as improving pesticide emission models or balancing biogenic carbon. Our agriculture sector experts are contributing to the discussion through their work on several methodological advancements to improve the data modeling on this topic. They aim to support users in managing the accountability of emissions more precisely.
Our mission is to promote and support the availability of high-quality environmental data worldwide to support informed sustainability decisions.
