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Deforestation is one of the major issues facing the global agriculture production system, with as much 8% of global CO₂ emissions being attributable to land use change. A well-known example is deforestation for the cultivation of crops such as soybean and oil palm. 

A big challenge for Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) researchers is to translate this impact of land use change to specific crops from specific countries while little primary data is available. Our ‘LUC Impact Tool’ is specifically designed to address this challenge.

LUC Impact is an Excel tool which provides a predefined way of calculating GHG emissions from LUC.