Contribute to AGRIBALYSE work

GIS REVALIM invites data users to contribute to improving and enhancing the database.

User contributions are essential for improving and developing the database. The Agribalyse partners intend to encourage external contributions in the future, while ensuring the consistency and quality of the database. Rules are currently being validated by the strategic committee and will be made available on this page.

On the other hand, it is inevitable that, despite our efforts and quality control processes, some errors will still be found in the database. Users are invited to contact us if they think they have identified other errors.

GIS REVALIM invites you to contribute to the improvement of the AGRIBALYSE® database.

The data improvement process is based in part on feedback from users.

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Procedure and guide for potential external contributors to the AGRIBALYSE database

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Resources for external contributors

There are several ways in which you can contribute to improving and enriching the data:

🔸Improving methodologies for calculating indicators

In this case, improvements involve specific R&D work, consistent with international work. ADEME finances studies and numerous R&D projects on various subjects: carbon storage/removal from soils, taking account of local biodiversity, pesticide toxicity, water footprint, etc.

Within GIS REVALIM, working groups open to GIS members have been set up on certain topics. These working groups can call on external expertise from time to time. If you would like to offer your expertise to contribute to the reflections around a methodological axis, please contact [e-mail].

🔸 Suggestions for corrections and improvements to existing data

By construction, AGRIBALYSE® data mobilise numerous hypotheses. Some data are approximated or simplified.

Users are invited to let us know of any proposals for modifications relating to identified errors or proposals for improvements to assumptions relating to existing data. These may relate to agricultural processes, consumption mixes, transformation processes, recipes or downstream operations (packaging, logistics, transport, preparation of dishes).

To do so, send an email to the Agribalyse customer service department at: [e-mail]

🔸New data integration proposals

The database is continually enriched by new variations of existing products (products with labels, for example), the integration of missing products, the integration of missing agro-industrial processes, new recipes, etc.

Potential contributors are invited to contact the Technical Institute concerned to discuss the purpose of the study and the scope (either existing data or data to be produced). Following this, the Technical Institute will assess the representativeness of the proposed processes within the French sectors and their suitability for inclusion in the AGRIBALYSE® database. The GIS REVALIM strategic committee will assess the proposals submitted by the Technical Institutes (relevance of integration to the programme's priorities, compliance with the AGRIBALYSE® methodology, etc.).

Database evolution-Update calendar | AGRIBALYSE® documentation (EN)doc.agribalyse.fr

The AGRIBALYSE® database is a database providing data on generic products, and it is intended to remain so. Thus, while the database is intended to be used to enhance the product variations used to highlight the differences in impacts associated with different methods of production, processing or packaging (organic products versus conventional products, glass bottles versus plastic bottles, etc.), it is not intended to distinguish between products of different brands.

However, ADEME, INRAE and their partners encourage companies to produce their own data, particularly in the context of eco-design projects, using the AGRIBALYSE® methodology, so that their data can be compared with the generic data in the AGRIBALYSE® database.