Human Health and Ecosystem Quality Benefits with Life Cycle Assessment Due to Fungicides Elimination in Agriculture

Industrial agriculture results in environmental burdens due to the overuse of fertilizers and pesticides. Fungicides is a class pesticides whose application contributes (among others) human toxicity ecotoxicity. The European Union aims increase organic agriculture. For this reason, work analyze climate change, freshwater ecotoxicity, terrestrial toxicity, (terrestrial) acidification, eutrophication impacts fungicides calculate expected benefits health (per citizen) ecosystem quality with life cycle assessment (LCA) during crop production. Scopus database was searched for LCA studies that considered specific crops. analysis shows how many systemic contact were by what applied dosage. Furthermore, it highly contribute fruits vegetables, but low extent compared all case cereals rapeseed. Expected after elimination are greater ranging between 0 47 min per citizen year 90 species year, respectively.