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Sustainability, BCFN Double Pyramid & Wheat

Luca RuiniBarilla HSE&E Director

Bruxelles, 6 April 2011

Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition

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The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition is a multidisciplinary think tank founded with the aim of:

identifying the key food and nutrition priorities related to people, environment, science and economics

collecting and analyzing the most advanced experience, knowledge and competencies available in the world

developing proposals and recommendations on food and nutrition and making them available to opinion leaders and decision makers

BARILLA CENTER FOR FOOD & NUTRITION


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Sustainable growth (water management, climate change, etc.)

Food and health (diseases, prevention, life styles, food safety,

etc.)

The role and meaning of food in various cultures, religious, communities

Food security (raw materials markets, distribution process,

etc.)

FOUR MACRO AREAS


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THE SCIENTIFIC CONTRIBUTION


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CO2

CH4

N2O

Welcome into the Anthropocene !


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Agriculture accounts for the production of approximately 33% of all annual greenhouse gas emissions worldwide

The main greenhouse gases produced by the agricultural sector

The European House-Ambrosetti re-elaboration from WRI CAIT

Agriculture 33%

Other sectors67%

Altro (CH4, N2O) 6%

Manure Mng. (CH4) 7%

Energy-Related (CO2) 9%

Rice (CH4)10%

Enteric Fermentation (CH4)27%

Soils (N2O)40%

N2O 46%

CH445%

CO29%


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Impacts of Climate Change

Indirect mitigation

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Direct Mitigation

Vulnerability

Adaptation

Carbon sequestration

Bioenergy

Emission reductions

Agriculture and Climate Policy


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Novembre 2009Lund Climate Smart Food

EU Workshop

May 2009

2009 EU Sweden Presidency Recommendations on Climate Smart FoodThe past Presidency of the European Commission held by Sweden sent a paper to the Member States that describes the relation between climate change and nutrition, in which a greater consumption of cereals and pasta is recommended to meat.


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With BCFN a Scientific Paper was drafted in a format similar to its Swedish counterpart. This paper not only tackles environmental impact from the emission of greenhouse gases (Carbon Footprint) but also handles:

Water consumption (Water Footprint)

Ecological Footprint

The Double Pyramid Scientific Paper


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The Environmental Pyramid was composed by associating each food group with its environmental impact and placing them in a decreasing fashion to generate an upside-down pyramid in comparison to the nutritional pyramid whose top layer contains the food group that yields greatest environmental impact and bottom-most layer is reserved for the food group with least environmental impact

Composing the Environmental Pyramid

Impact on the Environment Nutrition – Environmental Pyramid


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All data presented is elaborated under the life cycle assessment approach that is an evaluation of the energetic and environmental impact associated to a product or process, throughout the entire food chain.

Innovative in comparison to traditional analysis methods, the LCA approach consists in evaluating every phase of a production process, while accounting for the correlation among all phases.

The Methodology Used- Life Cycle Assessment


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Water Footprint measures water consumption in terms ofVolume employed (evaporated) and/or polluted per unit of timethroughout overall life-cycle.

(www.waterfootprint.org)

Ecological Footprint is a measure of the number of land or maritimeplots necessary to regenerate the resources consumedand absorb the waste produced by human settle-ments or a single human activity, employing measures of dominant resource and technologymanagement

Carbon Footprint represents the total amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emitted either directly or indirectly by human activity throughout overalllife-cycle. It is expressed in equivalent tons of CO2

PAS 2050:2008

ISO 14064:2006

The Environmental Indicators (2/2)


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Ecological Footprint


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1. Audit of public information available and identification of available data for every food chain examined.

2. Verification of data available on the basis of information available to the working group. During this phase, certain data was integrated with specific elaborations, while other was eliminated from the sample given its far-off value from the average.

3. Construction of the 3 environmental pyramids (Carbon, Water and Ecological) starting from the data selected.

The environmental section of the three pyramids was defined according to a methodological approach based on 3 fundamental steps:

The Construction of the three Pyramids


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Environmental Pyramid: Ecological Footprint


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Environmental Pyramid: Carbon Footprint


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Environmental Pyramid: Water Footprint


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The Ecological Footprint was chosen as indicator of reference in building the Double Pyramid because it is:

1. Complete in the fact that is accounts for land occupation and emissions of CO2;

2. Simple to communicate in the fact that its unit of measure (global hectar) is easily “visualized”;

This conclusion was obtained by a recent study performed by the European Commission that reveals the Ecological Footprint as indicator to promote. (Potential of the Ecological Footprint for monitoring environmental impacts from natural resource use – DG Environment, May 2008)

Indicator used: Ecological Footprint


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The BCFN Double Pyramid

BCFN proposes the Double Nutrition Pyramid as a simple means of communicating the fact that foods highly recommended by the Nutritional Guidelines in terms of greater consumption tend to yield least environmental impact.

Studies show that the Mediterranean diet yields positive effects on both health and the environment


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Double Pyramid


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LCA Chef Tool developed


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More on WWW.BarillaCFN.com


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2011 BCFN’S EVENTS

22th March – Rome“State of the world 2011 – Feeding the planet”

20th April* “Water economy: water emergency”

24th May*“Agriculture production and consumption

for a sustainable future”14th June – Brussels, European Parliament

“Agriculture and food access in the EU agenda”6th July – Rome

“The Double Pyramid: food, sustainability and health”

12th July*“GM and biotechnology”

8th September*“Children’s diet”

20th October ‐ Brussels, European Parliament“Production model and future of the agriculture”

*WEB EVENT / WEBINAR

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