Data access
AGRIBALYSE data can be accessed in different formats.
AGRIBALYSE data is available in two main formats:
a simplified version, accessible to all
a full version, which requires the use of LCA software.
AGRIBALYSE® data are relatively complex, and users are advised to consult the "User Guide" (avaible only in french) and, more generally, the methodological documentation in order to facilitate the interpretation of the work.
There are two types of data produced by AGRIBALYSE:
Life cycle inventories (=LCIs)
Lifecycle Inventories (LCIs) are models of each stage in the lifecycle leading to the finished product (the product consumed by the consumer in the case of food products, or the product leaving the farm in the case of agricultural products). These data are available in the LCA software packages SimaPro, Brightway and OpenLCA. This data is used to display production information (details of agricultural production, yields from the various processing stages, etc.). This data is free of charge and can be adapted for use in LCA software. Remember to update the ‘characterisation methods’ in your software.
🌍SimaPro: download the complete LCI DB directly from the SimaPro platform. The ‘original’ version of Agribalyse is developed on Simapro: these are the reference values to be considered in the event of discrepancies in results with other software.
🌍Brightway (format provided by G. Coste, SustainCERT for ADEME): Import guide; Brightway general documentation; Agribalyse ICV database. Please note that some substances used by Agribalyse are not yet available in Brightway, which may lead to small discrepancies in some results.
🌍openLCA: free LCA software.
Significant differences in impact can be observed between the impact results calculated with Simapro and those calculated with Open LCA and Brightway. This is particularly the case for the water resource indicator. This is due to the way in which the impact methods have been implemented in the different software programmes (and in particular, with regard to water, the way in which regionalisation has been taken into account).
As AGRIBALYSE is available in disaggregated format in LCA software, and mobilizes ecoinvent background data (non-agricultural/food processes), use of AGRIBALYSE in such software requires an ecoinvent License (Academic, Commercial or Enterprise). Similarly, the integration of ecoinvent background processes present in Agribalyse into tools is subject to an ecoinvent License (Developer). For further information, please refer to the ecoinvent license conditions.
The environmental impacts of products (=impact indicators) calculated using the Environmental Footprint method
These impacts are available:
For finished products (products consumed by the consumer): via the Agribalyse online data exploration portal AND via an online spreadsheet on DATAVERSE AGRIBALYSE, which provides information on each of the 2,516 finished products: English names, French names, CIQUAL code, quality rating (DQR), environmental impacts of finished products, but also distinction by life cycle stage, and by ingredients for recipe-based products.
For raw agricultural products leaving the farm, via Excel spreadsheets on DATAVERSE AGRIBALYSE:
a spreadsheet for conventional raw agricultural produce (farm gate)
a spreadsheet for organic produce (farm gate)
a specific spreadsheet for animal feed (Ecoalim), also available on the INRAE website
Complementary LCA data to Agribalyse can be identified in GLAD platform.
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