Underlying Nutritional Life Cycle Assessment (nLCA) inventory data applicable to an Indonesian case study of the Nutritional Value Score (NVS)
Description
The Excel file presented here provides metadata as well as explanatory notes for a study which explores the nexus of environmental impacts and nutritional provision (and quality) for staple foods commonly consumed in Indonesia. The dataset herein offers complete transparency of, e.g., processes used (or indeed adapted) from widely used Life Cycle Assessment databases such as Agri-footprint and Ecoinvent, as well as assumptions made related to cooking yields, waste streams, packaging used, data quality, and normalised scores to provide viewers with a visual reference to which foods' supply chain stages are most impactful, thus complementing both an original research article and a data article which this dataset will be linked to via DOI citations. Please see the notes tab in the attached for more information.
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Steps to reproduce
Data here represent a simplified inventory for a nutritional Life Cycle Assessment (nLCA) of staple foods consumed in Indonesia. A more holistic inventory will be augmented with the data paper intended for publication upon acceptance of the main manuscript: this file provides viewers/users with the most representative data currently available (pre-adjustment, where relevant) in widely used LCA databases which most users rely on primarily for 'background' supply chain processes. A sample of data (and the full data source) is provided in the third tab enabling users to (a) identify the processes required to create the mass-based, intermediary, functional unit of the current study (i.e., 1 kg), (b) browse the Indonesian Report generated by Wageningen Research and adjust the processes provided here, and (c) consider data quality and perhaps identify areas where future users of the entire project (i.e., all publications as a whole, with this being the starting point) can build upon and improve.
Institutions
- Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition
- Harper Adams University College
- Massey University