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Carbon Footprint impactCarbon Footprint impact

It is, nevertheless, important to notice that the impacts

this research takes into consideration are not just the

ones generated by a food production chain; they can

be the most relevant ones in terms of real impact and

communication. Even though the environmental

pyramid has been represented through the ecological

footprint, for synthetic reasons the food environmental

impact was measured by water and carbon footprint

indicators, to avoid partial and sometimes misleading

ideas of the phenomena. The pyramids concerning

the three environmental impact indicators and the

Environmental Pyramid are displayed below.

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