Decreasing arable land, rising urbanization, water scarcity, and climate change exert
pressure on agricultural producers. Moving from soil to soilless culture systems can improve …

This study discusses importance of assessing environmental sustainability of fruits and
vegetable (F&V) production sector in future climate change (CC) scenarios. For the current …

Purpose This article introduces the special issue “LCA of nutrition and food consumption”
and 14 papers selected from the Ninth LCA Food Conference in San Francisco in October …

Urban agriculture can contribute to food security, food system resilience and sustainability at
the city level. While studies have examined urban agricultural productivity, we lack systemic …

High-tech greenhouse production of vegetables has been proposed as a path to sustainable
intensification of food production. While these systems have clear productivity advantages …

Given the lack of state regulation and the growing consumer demand for local foods, several
retailers have started to promote “locally” grown food using different labeling strategies …

Organically and locally grown products have positive environmental impacts due to the
reduction in the greenhouse emissions required for their production. This paper contributes …

Defining sustainable cities is not straightforward. The main issues involved in urban
sustainability are buildings, energy, food, green areas and landscape, mobility, urban …

Vertical farming is emerging as an effective measure to grow food in buildings and can
increase food production in urban areas in a more sustainable manner. This study presents …

The environmental efficiency of agricultural production and the relationship between
management type and monetary value of achieving environmental efficiency are important …