Life Cycle Assessment of Rice Production in Taiwan as Organic Farming and Intermediate Farming
Date Issued
2010
Date
2010
Author(s)
Wang, Yi-Shin
Abstract
Food is essential for human bodies. In recent years, the idea that methods and techniques must be designed on the concept of sustainability has gained acceptance. This perspective considers a comprehensive evaluation of all upstream and downstream effects of human activity or product manufacture to evaluate the cumulative and synergistic effects on the environment over space and time. In this study, the main grain crop in Taiwan-rice, as the study subject and discusses and analyzes its production process.
The study mainly uses Life Cycle Assessment as the method to analyze the production process of rice crop. The material flow analysis is a good way to analysis the input and output resource on production process. Thus, these two methodologies were used to analysis the environmental impact on organic farming and conventional farming. The data resource of organic farming is from to visit 7 organic farms, and conventional farming is government collection from 2007 to 2008.
The environmental impact result is organic farming better than conventional farming.
Subjects
Rice
Life cycle assessment
Material flow
Type
thesis
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