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Thus in this case again it would make a difference whether the
reference area would consist of fallow land or food production, because the
latter would have greater repercussions on the global situation than the
former.
As a result of such effects, arbitrarily choosing a non-global
geographic boundary is not valid within a complete LCA considering all
effects from cradle to grave - although it may be valuable within certain
political or economic contexts.
3.3 Different combinations of land use producing the same
utilities
Finally, a further example shall illustrate how different combinations of
land use can be employed to produce the same commodities and yet
generate very different environmental impacts: in the following examples
three different systems are compared, where each system can be regarded
as being the respective reference system for one of the others. The issue
investigated is a comparison between the following three systems:
conventional
farming in combination
with
bioenergy (RME)
production
conventional farming in combination with fallow set-aside and
conventional diesel
organic farming in combination with conventional diesel fuel
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