2017 Volume 13 Issue 3 Pages 224-233
The development processes of agricultural life cycle assessment（LCA）were reviewed through the survey of the international conferences of LCA on agri-food sectors. As a preparation step, activities of the EU project on harmonization of agricultural LCA was studies, after discussing the reasons why agriculture is an important topic in LCA. Then, hosted years, locations, and organizers for the previous agri-food LCA conferences were identified and the trends in the topics discussed in the conferences were analyzed. The results illustrate that issues specific to agriculture were discussed from the outset and that the topics such as feeding behavior and environmental labelling were started to discuss recently. This paper was concluded with discussing how is the relationship of LCA to growing food demand due to world population increase, how to apply LCA to policy support, and how to use LCA in agricultural management.
