Novel trends & developments
- Novel trends / developments in food production systems
- Implications of smart food systems (digitalization and block chains in food systems)
- Designing sustainable food systems
- Impacts of novel food processing technologies and Artificial Intelligence
Food logistics & retailing
- Disruptive logistics of novel food systems: rethinking food miles
- Grocery retail bankruptcy or evolution?
- Direct and indirect impacts of food logistics
Challenges in modelling & data
- Tackling complexity of food systems (modelling, cyber-physical systems, LCSA)
- Opening the data on food for LCA (databases, tools and software developments)
- New models for food LCA
Sustainability evaluation models
- Evaluation models and how to deal with normativity
- Sustainability assessment/evaluation approaches in food
- Value scales (e.g. SDGs, ) in food LCA & LCSA
Methodological challenges
- Impact assessment in sLCA
- Biodiversity impact assessment
- Soil quality impact assessment
- Assessment of animal welfare in LCA
- Assessment of health & well-being, nutritional LCA
Case studies
- Circular economy case studies in food systems
- Assessment of alternative food production systems (e.g. “lab” food, insects, non-crop based food production systems)
- Assessment of alternative agricultural systems (e.g. aquaponics, vertical farming, urban gardening, “double-use” systems)
- Food waste or by-product? Making the sense of side-streams utilization
- Single market and single benchmark for food products (PEF, labelling and communication)