Room: Poster Area
Date: Tuesday, 19 May 2026
Time: 16:15 - 17:15 CEST
Session code 2AV.3
Circular bioeconomy and environmental performance: innovations and assessments
Real Data Life Cycle Assessment of Options for Sustainable Sugar Beet Cultivation based on a Case Study
Short Introductive summary
The leading sugar crop in Europe, sugar beet is primarily cultivated for food sugar production. Reducing environmental impacts, such as soil erosion, nutrient leaching, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fertilizer input and tillage, are key challenges for future cultivation practices Therefore, this study investigated the environmental performance of alternative cultivation practices in sugar beet (Beta vulgaris L.) production through a comparative Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). As In on-farm field experiements strip-tillage combined with banded fertilizer placement, and cover cropping before sugar beet cultivation were tested in South Saxony-Anhalt. The LCA applied cradle-to-farm-gate system boundaries and focuses on main drivers of environmental impact. The conference contribution will provide first results of the experimental year 2025.
Presenter
Sophia BOTHE
Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum, GERMANY
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Co-authors:
S. Majer, Deutsches Biomasseforschungszentrum, Leipzig, GERMANY
A. Jacobs, Institute for Sugar Beet Research, Göttingen, GERMANY
Session reference: 2AV.3.12