Life Cycle Analysis of Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa) in the Province of Junín. As a Tool to Determine Impacts on the Quality of Ecosystems, Resources and Human Health

Smith E. Reyes Palomino, Sandy L. Pocomucha Chancasanampa, Yosvi F. Perez Martel, Steve D. Camargo Hinostroza

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Abstract

Quinoa production in Peru has intensified because it is the largest producer of quinoa worldwide and because of its high nutritional content, causing farmers to change their traditional type of cultivation to a more industrialized one, for which it is necessary to identify the impact environment generated by the production of quinoa. For which in the present research work, through the use of the life cycle analysis methodology, the main categories of damages that occur during agricultural production were identified and characterized, obtaining as a result that the agricultural phase produces environmental impacts in human health, resources and the quality of ecosystems, prioritizing the highest percentage of negative environmental impacts in the categories of climate change, acidification and eutrophication, however, there are also positive environmental impacts. By the use of compost that minimizes the environmental impact produced by the life cycle of Quinoa.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publication2023 the 7th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Science - ICEES 2023
EditorsJianping Yang
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages161-169
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783031320675
DOIs
StateIndexed - 2023
Event2023 the 7th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Science - ICEES 2023 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 6 Jan 20238 Jan 2023

Publication series

NameEnvironmental Science and Engineering
ISSN (Print)1863-5520
ISSN (Electronic)1863-5539

Conference

Conference2023 the 7th International Conference on Energy and Environmental Science - ICEES 2023
CityVirtual, Online
Period6/01/238/01/23

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.

Keywords

  • Agriculture
  • Climate change
  • LCA
  • Life cycle
  • Quinoa

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