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Life Cycle Thinking for our food

Exploring the environmental impacts of food consumption with the example of African cocoa. 

Life Cycle Thinking for our food

How can we measure the environmental impact of our food consumption? Can we calculate our consumer footprint and assess major steps in production? Are policies helping towards a sustainable use of resources? This StoryMap explores these questions with Life Cycle Assessment-based methods and the example of cocoa, which account for nearly half of the top EU Agri-food imports from Sub-Saharan Africa.

Find out more on the Africa Knowledge Platform.

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