LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT IN MAIZE CROPS IN MEXICO

Agricultural activity has been identified as causing environmental impacts, responsible for numerous types of pollution that effect water, soil, air and human health. However, changes in agricultural models would allow agriculture to reduce its emissions. To analyze the environmental impacts caused...

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Published inEconomic and Social Development: Book of Proceedings pp. 585 - 592
Main Authors Paulino-Flores, Miriam, Da Silva, Ana Lorga, Villavicencio-Gutierrez, Rosario, Martinez-Campos, Angel Roberto, Martinez-Castaneda, Francisco Ernesto, Velazquez-Contreras, Luis
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published Varazdin Varazdin Development and Entrepreneurship Agency (VADEA) 15.11.2018
Subjects
Agricultural management
Agricultural production
Agriculture
Air pollution
Carbon dioxide
Cereal crops
Climate change
Corn
Crops
Emissions
Environmental health
Environmental impact
Eutrophication
Harvest
Herbicides
Inventors
Inventory
Life cycle analysis
Life cycle assessment
Life cycle engineering
Life cycles
Monoculture
Pollution effects
Potassium
Public health
Raw materials
Recipes
Seasons
Sediment pollution
Seeds
Soil pollution
Soil water
Toxicity
Water pollution
Mexico
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Summary:Agricultural activity has been identified as causing environmental impacts, responsible for numerous types of pollution that effect water, soil, air and human health. However, changes in agricultural models would allow agriculture to reduce its emissions. To analyze the environmental impacts caused by maize production, a life cycle assessment was carried out with the objective of quantifying the impacts and identifying critical points. Also obtain useful information for decision makers and researchers to generate improvement options. Four maize crops were evaluated: rojo, lomas, zanahoria and negro with conventional monoculture management in the municipality of Toluca, Mexico. The evaluation was carried out at the midpoint with a life cycle assessment (LCA) with the OpenLCA software. The main results show us that the variety lomas presents the lowest impacts in all categories and the variety of maize zanahoria is responsible for the greatest impacts in 11 of the categories evaluated.
ISSN:1849-6903
1849-6903