Carbon footprint calculation model for the Mexican food equivalent system.
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Carbon footprint, food, Mexico, equivalents, model, carbon dioxideAbstract
Introduction: the impact environment trough the anthropogenic action has been contributed to the fast production of greenhouse gases effect (GHG), a way to estimate the quantity of these substances is the carbon footprint (CF), nowadays it does not exist enough models for the calculation of food carbon footprint.
Objective: the aim of this study was to design a calculation model for the measurement of the carbon footprint on the Mexican food equivalent system.
Methods: it was about a retrospective study, a bibliographic review was made with original and review articles in different specialized researchers, there were included publications in English and Spanish, also published from 2000 to 2016.
Results: a reference table was proposed for the food carbon footprint calculation on the Mexican food equivalent system trough the carbon intensity indicator, which is determined by the grams of emissions equivalents of carbon dioxide (CO2) in relation with the
energetic contribution of each food equivalent.
Conclusion: in a conclusion manner, estimating food carbon footprint is still a challenge, mean while the calculation models proposal is important to estimate the production of GHG trough a more sustainable food system.
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