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Life Cycle Assessment of Southeast Asian Diets |
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| รหัสดีโอไอ | |
| Creator | Hnin Nandar Khine |
| Title | Life Cycle Assessment of Southeast Asian Diets |
| Contributor | Romanee Thongdara, Kritsanat Surakit, Kaewta Muangasame, Nawatch Surinkul, Trakarn Prapaspongsa |
| Publisher | Environmental Engineering Association of Thailand |
| Publication Year | 2565 |
| Journal Title | Thai Environmental Engineering Journal (TEEJ) |
| Journal Vol. | 36 |
| Journal No. | 1 |
| Page no. | 21-32 |
| Keyword | LCA, Southeast Asian diets, Human health, Ecosystem, Natural resources, Global warming potential |
| URL Website | https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/teej |
| Website title | Thai Environmental Engineering Journal (TEEJ) |
| ISSN | 2673-0359 |
| Abstract | Population growth has increased demand for food globally. Food production has negative impacts on the environment. Previous research has shown that dietary choices significantly influencedenvironmental impacts. Studies on the environmental impactsof Southeast Asian diets are still limited and needed. The objectives of this study are to assess and comparethe lifecycle environmental impacts of diets in 9 Southeast Asian countries (Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, Timor-Leste, and Vietnam), toidentify the dietary choices causing theenvironmental impacts and to provide recommendations on environmental impact reduction. The functional unit of this assessment is food consumption in kilograms per capita per year. The assessment scope is from cradle to gate. Foreground data were obtained from Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) food balance sheets with the representative year as of2018 and International Coffee Organization (ICO). Background data were obtained from ecoinvent and Agri-footprint databases. Four environmental impact categories (human health damage, ecosystem damage, resource scarcity,and global warming potential) were assessed using the ReCiPe 2016method(v1.04). Healthy diet scenarios with the diet and energy intake adjustments to achieve the recommended standard healthy diets were also analyzed. The dietary choices with higher amount and more high-impact food groups would cause higher environmental impacts.Vietnam, Myanmar,and Laos had higherimpacts forall impact categories,while Timor-Leste had the lowest impacts among Southeast Asian countries. Meats/meat products and cereals were significantcontributors to all impact categories, followed by fish and seafood.Based on the healthy diet scenario analysis, overall reduction and meats&cerealsreduction were recommended for environmental impact reduction becausemeats, fishand seafood, cereals were the major contributors to all impacts categories in Southeast Asia. As meats/meat products lead as a criticalfood group causing environmental impacts, it is recommended that governments should take specific measures to reduce the consumption of animals and animal products and to support meat substitutes (e.g.,tofu, tempeh, beans, etc.). |
