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DOI	10.3389/fsufs.2022.994920
	Tomatoes from the desert: Environmental footprints and sustainability potential in a changing world
	Wyngaard, Sharon Ravitz; Kissinger, Meidad
通讯作者	Kissinger, M
来源期刊	FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS
EISSN	2571-581X
出版年	2022
卷号	6
英文摘要	Worldwide growing demand for food, alongside limited resources and accelerating environmental changes, suggests that future global food security may rely at least partially on unconventional land and production systems, such as built infrastructure located in desert areas. This paper analyses the environmental footprints (water, soil, carbon, material, solid waste, and ecological) of a tomato production system in passive greenhouses, a low-tech growing structure with no artificial heating or cooling. We collected data from 10 farms in the hyper-arid region of the Central Arava, Israel. Our analysis covers the four stages of production up to the overseas export destination and investigates the system's direct and indirect biophysical interactions. The average footprint of a ton of tomatoes is 1,040 kg/t (Material footprint), 94 m(3)/t (Water footprint), 72 m(2)/t (Land footprint), 952 kgCO(2)eq/t (Carbon footprint), 442 kg/t solid waste (SWF) and 243 gha/t (Ecological footprint). Our results indicate that the environmental hotspots can be attributed to universal factors-water production, fossil energy, fertilizers, structures, and road transport, alongside case-specific elements-soil, evaporation, location and the human-factor. Some differences were found when examining the full range of footprints within farms. No correlation was found between the farm's yields and materials inputs or carbon footprint, pointing to the human factor. We discuss the advantages and limitations of the local production system and proposed some improvement strategies.
英文关键词	desert food system environmental footprint family tomatoes life cycle assessment passive greenhouse
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	gold
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000875757000001
WOS关键词	LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT ; GREENHOUSE-GAS EMISSIONS ; WATER-USE EFFICIENCY ; CARBON FOOTPRINT ; FOOD MILES ; ENERGY USE ; SYSTEMS ; CONSUMPTION ; AGRICULTURE ; VARIABILITY
WOS类目	Food Science & Technology
WOS研究方向	Food Science & Technology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/392876
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wyngaard, Sharon Ravitz,Kissinger, Meidad. Tomatoes from the desert: Environmental footprints and sustainability potential in a changing world[J],2022,6.
APA	Wyngaard, Sharon Ravitz,&Kissinger, Meidad.(2022).Tomatoes from the desert: Environmental footprints and sustainability potential in a changing world.FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS,6.
MLA	Wyngaard, Sharon Ravitz,et al."Tomatoes from the desert: Environmental footprints and sustainability potential in a changing world".FRONTIERS IN SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS 6(2022).