Call for Papers

We are pleased to announce this Call for Papers for the 12th International Conference on LCA of Food “Towards sustainable agri-food systems”, virtual from Berlin, Germany from 13th to 16th October 2020.

papers submission deadline July 1, 2020 (only for oral presentations)

You are invited to submit abstracts matching the following conference topics:

A) Novel trends & developments

Designing sustainable food systems
Novel trends / developments in food production systems
Implications of smart food systems (digitalization and block chains in food systems)
Impacts of novel food processing technologies and Artificial Intelligence

B) Sustainability evaluation models

Evaluation models and how to deal with normativity
Sustainability assessment & evaluation approaches in food
Value scales (e.g. SDGs) in food eLCA, sLCA, LCC & LCSA

C) Food logistics & retailing

Disruptive logistics of novel food systems: rethinking food miles
Grocery retail bankruptcy or evolution?
Direct and indirect impacts of food logistics

D) 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

E) 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

F) 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)

Contributor (submitter) grants all the publishing rights to the organizers of the 12th International Conference on LCA of Food. The organizers of the 12th International Conference on LCA of Food “Towards sustainable agri-food systems” have the copyright to use the abstract in the congress for scientific purposes without any prior notice to the contributor / authors.

Author's Guidelines

Full Paper and Poster Submission Process

Full Paper Submission

Upon abstract acceptance for oral presentation, authors are expected to submit a full paper (max. four pages plus two figures of tables) for the official proceedings of the 12th International Conference on LCA of Food “Towards sustainable agri-food systems”. After a peer-review process, the accepted full papers will be published in the proceedings.

Full Paper Submission

Confirmation of receipt & notification of decision

You will receive email confirmation that your paper has been received, indicating the allocated paper number. Please refer to this number in all further correspondence. Please, contact the Organizing Secretariat (Lcafood2020@dil-ev.de) if you submit paper and do not receive confirmation that it has been received. Only the submitter will receive all information concerning the paper and will be responsible for informing the other Authors of the status of the paper.

Copyright & Legal Obligation

All information in the abstract submission, including authors’ names, affiliations, authors order of listing, and the content of abstract, will be used in the congress publications. The contributor carries legal obligations of the abstract; any violation to a third party’s right will be the responsibility of the contributor him/herself. By submitting the abstract, the contributor (submitter) grants all the publishing rights to the organizers of the 12th International Conference on LCA of Food. The organizers of the 12th International Conference on LCA of Food “Towards sustainable agri-food systems” have the copyright to use the abstract in the congress for scientific purposes without any prior notice to the contributor / authors.