LCA DATABASE FOR FOOD & AGRICULTURE
Advance your sustainability decision-making with trusted agri-food data
Agri-footprint is the world’s leading environmental footprint database dedicated to the agri-food sector. Gain deep insights into the environmental impact of your products and services using comprehensive, consistent, comparable data trusted by industry leaders, LCA experts, research institutions, and policymakers worldwide.
Agri-footprint 8 now available – 10,000+ datasets
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What’s new in Agri-footprint 8?
Agri-footprint 8 is the most significant update of our LCA database as of yet, featuring a large scope expansion alongside many methodological updates and data actualization.
Agri-footprint 8 has undergone a critical review by independent experts, ensuring data integrity and methodological quality for your LCA and footprint calculations.
Scaling from 4,800 to 10,000 datasets
Access 2,600+ new fruit & vegetable datasets and state-level geographies for precise, audit-ready LCA calculations.
Agri-footprint 8 launches this summer with its biggest data expansion yet, doubling to 10,000 datasets.
The data dilemma in agri-food sustainability reporting
Coming soon: Agri-footprint 8 featuring a massive scope expansion to help you report with absolute confidence.
With tightening regulations, sustainability reporting must be audit-ready. Agri-footprint provides the trusted, transparent LCA secondary data needed to bridge supply chain gaps.
WHY CHOOSE AGRI-FOOTPRINT?
Confidently close your data gaps
Calculating environmental footprints in the agri-food sector requires background data that reflects real-world farming, regional trade, and complex supply chains – where generic LCA databases often fall short. Developed by food system sustainability experts at Mérieux NutriSciences | Blonk, Agri-footprint bridges this gap with comprehensive, consistent, and methodologically sound LCA datasets trusted worldwide.
Designed to support your specific sustainability needs, Agri-footprint equips:
- LCA specialists and consultants with reliable background data to accelerate footprint calculations.
- Sustainability leaders with the precision needed for accurate Scope 3 accounting and CSRD reporting.
- Software developers with clean, standardized secondary datasets to seamlessly integrate into footprint calculators and sustainability platforms
WHAT’S INSIDE?
What makes Agri-footprint your preferred database?
Agri-footprint provides full-coverage supply chain data, from crop production and animal production systems to processing, trade, and market mixes.
10,000+ agri-food related datasets
Comprehensive coverage across crops, intermediate processes,
animal feed compounds, food products, livestock systems, and background inputs like transport, energy, pesticides, and fertilizers.
Compliant with international standards
Built to support international standards and guidelines, including European Product Environmental Footprint (PEF), IPCC, ISO 14040/44 standards.
Robust data foundation & consistent methodology
Developed by using official statistics, scientific literature, primary industry data, and expert data modelling. Background methodologies are publicly available for independent verification.
Global scope, regional granularity
National and regional data covering key producing countries worldwide, including state-level resolution for major agricultural markets.
How we maintain data quality and integrity
Automated
data generation
Built using our Data Generation Pipeline, Agri-footprint replaces manual dataset creation with automated, code-based execution. This ensures complete consistency across all 10,000+ datasets, full traceability, and reproducible results.
Up-to-date
statistical baselines
Statistical inputs, including crop yields, pesticide application rates, trade flows, and Land Use Change (LUC), are systematically synchronized to a rolling 5-year average alongside spatial GIS modelling.
Independent
external review
Agri-footprint 8 has been reviewed by external LCA experts of Agroscope, in accordance with ISO 14040/44 standards to guarantee data quality.
Which version fits your needs?
Agri-footprint: Ideal for general life cycle assessments (LCA), supply chain hot spot analyses, product footprinting,
and comparative environmental studies.
Agri-footprint FLAG: Tailored for compliance with the Science Based Targets
initiative (SBTi) Forest, Land, and Agriculture (FLAG) Guidance. It features SBTi-
aligned impact categorization, 20-year linear discounting, and Land Occupation
metrics to streamline target setting and GHG inventory reporting
Cloud-based access to Agri-footprint
Every Agri-footprint licensee can now access the database via the cloud-based Blonk Data Hub. You can now access environmental impact data through an intuitive interface.
With a few simple clicks, you can:
- Access to different versions of Agri-footprint via the same interface (depending on your license)
- Intuitively search and filter datasets instantly
- Get one-click access to data sources, background methodologies and process insights
Get your Agri-footprint license today!
Whether you are looking to purchase a standalone license, upgrade your existing database version, or integrate Agri-footprint into your software platform, we offer flexible licensing models to fit your needs.