Food for the future: ENVIRONMENTAL QUANTIFICATION AND IMPACT REDUCTION

The FOODTURE initiative aims at catalyzing a transformative shift towards sustainable and innovative practices within the European food sector. Through the development and validation of enhanced life cycle assessment (LCA) methodologies and the promotion of stakeholder engagement, FOODTURE seeks to uncover effective strategies for sustainability and foster a resilient, circular food value chain. Emphasizing transparency and open access, the initiative performs R&I on precision agriculture techniques and environmental stewardship practices to mitigate pollution and enhance holistic impact assessment. FOODTURE delivers 16 clusters of results, including: A) whole-value chain LCIs of EU food systems; B) methodologies for improved Life Cycle Impact Assessment (LCIA); C) system-level impact quantifications, including an analysis of trade-offs and synergies between environmental, social, economic, animal welfare and human health impacts; D) policy briefs, open access & free tools, and capacity building sessions, that stakeholders can use to integrate LCAs in their daily operations. All of this is performed with the continuous integration of all value chain’s actors, in every step of the project’s implementation. Through collaborative action and innovative solutions, FOODTURE prioritizes zero pollution and assessment of regionalized environmental impacts, thus aspiring to set a new standard for holistic food system management, driving meaningful progress towards a more sustainable and resilient future for European food systems.

FOODTURE’s main objective is to drive a significant transformation in the European food sector, focusing on sustainability and innovation. By developing and validating improved LCA methodologies, moving away from generic data, and involving stakeholders at every stage, FOODTURE will reveal effective levers for sustainability and foster a more resilient and circular food value chain.

- SO1. To generate free and open regional datasets, in line with the PEF framework, allowing actors across the food value chain to have better understanding of environmental and climate impacts, validating technologies and methodologies in precision agriculture for spatialized data collection. - SO2. To involve all the food systems actors in the co-creation of a harmonized and standardized framework for an EU level LCI database, delivering open-source tools for food products across their value chains, including processing, packaging, logistics and transport, in line with the PEF framework. - SO3. To develop, update and validate in a relevant environment LCIA methods at midpoint and endpoint levels for assessing biodiversity impacts of food systems, toxicity and ecotoxicity of uncharacterized pesticides and plastic pollution impacts (macro- and microplastics and additives) on terrestrial and freshwater ecosystems. - SO4. To validate the new databases and the improved impact assessment methodologies on four relevant sectors: crop production (domestic European and imported products), poultry, aquaculture, and complex (multi-ingredient) food products and to footprint European food system (at least 80% coverage) - SO5. To systematically engage stakeholders across the food value chains and determine the circularity of food systems and the positioning of innovative technologies and solutions for better farming practices. - SO6. To produce a comprehensive food system analysis at multiple-scales (product/supply chain, food basket, diets and food system), including economic and social components of the food systems impact assessment. - SO7. To perform policy mapping and develop recommendations towards research and sustainability policy at EU level, supporting actors across the value chain and building their capacities to capitalize on new knowledge.

Hay resultados establecidos para cada objetivo siendo los que competen a la PUCP: - (SO3) R7: characterization factors (CFs) for fishing pressure, new CFs for seafloor damage (PUCP, NTNU). - (SO3) R10: open-access models for new LCIA methodologies for biodiversity and macro and microplastic pollution (NTNU, PUCP, INRAE) - (SO4) R11: PEF-compliant LCAs on food systems, validating produced extended datasets and improved impact calculation methods on five case studies. (UVIC, PUCP, UGENT, EV ILVO).

1. Fortalecimiento de capacidades institucionales 2. Generación de redes de colaboración 3. Visibilidad académica internacional 4. Transferencia de conocimiento y tecnología 5. Impacto en políticas públicas 6. Fortalecimiento de la cooperación Sur-Norte

Investigacion aplicada

Multidisciplinario

ADMINISTRADO

LIMA - LIMA - SAN MIGUEL

• 76 — Medioambiente, recursos naturales y ecología

Ingeniería, Tecnología - Ingeniería ambiental - Ingeniería ambiental y geológica

PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL PERÚ