Carbon Footprint of agricultural production and processing of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) in southern Brazil
| Autor: | Ênio Leandro Machado, Diosnel Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez, Adriane de Assis Lawisch-Rodriguez, Ricardo Boettcher, Ana Letícia Zappe, Priscila Fernandes de Oliveira |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
biology Nicotiana tabacum Soil Science Plant Science 010501 environmental sciences biology.organism_classification 01 natural sciences Crop Agronomy Greenhouse gas Carbon footprint Environmental science Cultivation of tobacco Agricultural productivity Life-cycle assessment Agricultural crops 0105 earth and related environmental sciences General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Technology & Innovation. 18:100625 |
| ISSN: | 2352-1864 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.eti.2020.100625 |
| Popis: | One of the main agricultural crops in Brazil is the tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) production, currently the second largest producer of this commodity of the world. Its production extends across the three southern states of the country and accounts for important interactions with the environment. Thus, the study of the relationship between tobacco cultivation and the environment should be evaluated in order to reduce its impacts. This study uses a life cycle assessment (LCA) to evaluate the Carbon Footprint (CF) of Virginia (VA) and Burley (BU) tobacco varieties produced in southern Brazil, using the dataset of 14,409 tobacco farmers. The LCA results showed that the use of nitrogen fertilizer in the crop stages of both the tobacco varieties is the main contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The CF was 1398.5 kg CO2-eq/ton of dry VA tobacco, compared to the 1829.7 kg CO2-eq/ton of dry BU tobacco. The seedling and industrial processing stages of both tobacco varieties account for less than 13% of the overall CF. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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