In France, apples are the most consumed and exported fruits. The sustainability of the whole supply chain is increasingly called into question from a sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) point of view. Sustain’Apple aims to shed light on the organizational and institutional solutions that may be implemented at all stages of the supply chains (short and long chains). The project, which can be classified in the 2nd axis as defined by the ANR, will run for a 4-year period with the requested grant totaling €876,305. The consortium brings together all the competencies necessary to address these sustainable apple chain issues with on the research side, INRA, CIRAD, IRSTEA, Montpellier SupAgro, ESA Angers and UAPV are concerned through the involvement of UMR MOISA, UMR Innovation, UMR ITAP, PSH and UERI Gotheron.
The project includes a LCA work package that aims to compare the environmental performances of different chains, from orchards to final consumers.
Irstea Contact: Eléonore Loiseau
Eléonore Loiseau graduated from AgroParisTech (Master’s degree, 2008) and from AgroParisTech – Engref (Post-Master degree for Management and Administration in environmental sciences and policies, 2010). She did her PhD thesis at ELSA on methodological proposals for performing an environmental assessment of territories based on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) framework, with an implementation in the French Mediterranean case study of ‘Bassin de Thau’. Since 2014, she has been working as a researcher in Irstea ITAP unit developing research on “territorial LCA” approach.