Conference Agenda

Session

Session 3.16: Methodologies and Tools for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Value Chains Part II

Time:

Friday, 12/Sept/2025:

2:30pm - 4:00pm

Session Chair: Andrea Di Maria, University of Liege, Belgium
Session Chair: Roland Meyer, INaB - RWTH Aachen, Germany

Presentations

(15 minutes)

Durum wheat production in Sicily, Italy: Evaluating the environmental impacts of conventional vs. organic farming systems

Monica Auteri¹, Giuseppe Di Miceli¹, Mario Licata¹, Rose Nangah Mankaa², Simona Prestigiacomo¹, Marzia Traverso²

¹Department of Agricultural, Food and Forest Sciences, University of Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, Building 4, 90128 Palermo, PA, Italy; ²Institute of Sustainability in Civil Engineering in RWTH Aachen, 52074 Aachen, Germany

(15 minutes)

Enhancing Sustainability in the Food Value Chain: A Three-Dimensional Methodological Assessment of Innovative Food Product Design

Dilber Ayhan¹, Ignacio Zurano², Mecit Halil Oztop³

¹The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK); ²Lomartov Applied Innovation Engineering; ³Middle East Technical University

(15 minutes)

Assessing Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability in Northern Spain’s Fishing Fleets: An Integrated LCA+DEA Approach with the WEF Nexus

Eva Martínez-Ibáñez, Jara Laso, Ana Fernández-Ríos, Maria Margallo, Ruben Aldaco

Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. University of Cantabria. Av. De los Castros s/n, 39005. Santander, Spain

(6 minutes)

Balancing Sustainability and Stability: What Matters More for Enhancing Sustainability—Short or Long Food Supply Chains and Production Methods?

Yuki Sano¹, Ayumi Yamaki¹, Yasunori Kikuchi¹, Kensuke Fukushi^1,2

¹the University of Tokyo, Japan; ²United Nations University, Japan

(6 minutes)

Comparing Environmental Assessment Methods: Olive Oil Producers in Central Italy study case

Alessia Di Giuseppe¹, Fabiana Frota de Albuquerque Landi², Franco Contana¹

¹University of Perugia, Italy; ²NORSUS Norwegian Institute for Sustainability Research, Norway

(Short Oral + Poster)

Developing a Framework for Sustainability Scoring of Food Products

Hanne Møller¹, Erik Svanes¹, Anna Woodhouse¹, Paule Bhérer-Breton², Hanne Fjerdingby Olsen²

¹NORSUS Norwegian Institute for Sustainability Research, Norway; ²NMBU, Norwegian University of Life Sciences

(Short Oral + Poster)

Integrating Multi-Criteria Decision-Making with Multi-Objective Optimization for Sustainable Diet Design

Bashir Bashiri^1,2, Aleksei Kaleda², Raivo Vilu^1,2

¹Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn, Estonia; ²TFTAK AS, Tallinn, Estonia

(Short Oral + Poster)

Reducing the carbon footprint of food products: a methodology for sustainable value chain practices

Carolina C. Fraga¹, Sara M. Pinto¹, Rui Guilherme Gonçalves², Emanuel J. Lourenço¹

¹INEGI - Instituto de Ciência e Inovação em Engenharia Mecânica e Engenharia Industrial; ²MC SONAE - Mc Shared Services, S.A