Link with Ecoinvent & WFLDB

The Agribalyse database includes other partner databases.

The Agribalyse database draws on other partner databases for "background" data and on a number of products imported and consumed in France.

These are the following databases:

• ecoinvent: an international, multi-sector LCA database

• World Food Data Base: an international LCA database for food products (developed by Quantis and supported by major international food companies).

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.

ADEME-ecoinvent partnership

ADEME and ecoinvent have been working together for many years on the subject of LCA databases, particularly Agribalyse. This cooperation is based on a foundation of shared objectives and values, at the heart of the respective projects: transparency of work and documentation, scientific excellence, compliance with internationally recommended methodological frameworks, integrity of governance, data quality control, wide dissemination of environmental knowledge at the service of public and private players for the environmental transition.

The Agribalyse database is based on ecoinvent data for non-agricultural processes (e.g. electricity, transport, etc.) and for imported products (e.g. pineapple, tomato, Morocco, etc.). Thanks to Agribalyse, ecoinvent users can access a robust and relatively complete ICV ‘Food’ database, reflecting the production and market conditions of a European country.

The cooperation between ecoinvent and ADEME is aimed in particular at enabling :

• pool efforts to develop new data and tools

• improve methodologies and ensure consistency between databases

• increase the use of LCA data by all stakeholders in support of the environmental transition.

ecoinvent is a non-profit association founded by five Swiss research institutes with the aim of promoting and supporting the availability of environmental data worldwide. The association publishes and maintains the ecoinvent database.

The ecoinvent database is a documented and transparent life cycle inventory (LCI) database for thousands of products, covering a wide range of sectors at global and regional level. It currently contains over 18,000 datasets modelling human activities or processes. ecoinvent datasets contain information about the industrial or agricultural process they model, measuring the natural resources taken from the environment, the emissions released into water, soil and air, the products demanded by other processes (electricity) and, of course, the products, co-products and waste produced.

The ecoinvent database can be used in various types of environmental assessment, enabling users to better understand the environmental impacts of their products and services via software tools and applications.