LCA in Aquaculture activities

During 15-16 Feb, the SEAT Project teams from KU (Thailand), CTU (Vietnam), CML (Netherlands) and UoS (UK) attended the LCA Agri-Food Asia Workshop, held at the Centara Grand Hotel in Bangkok. This regional workshop was aimed to discuss current status, activities and gaps in LCA of Agri-food in Asia. The idea of forming a regional network of LCA practitioners and experts (from both public and private sectors) is indeed good which will aid in the sharing of databases and other needed information, give transparency to LCA methodologies, and generate more interest on LCA applications in all sectors. More about the network in their website at http://www.lca-agrifood-asia.org.

Then, from 18-22 Feb, the SEAT project through the LCA partners from WP3 (Patrik H of CML, Leiden & Dr R Mungkung of VGreen, KU) conducted a hands-on workshop on LCA using CMLCA program. Sessions during the first 2 days were held at the Faculty of Fisheries, KU, then the last 3 days were held at the Faculty of Science, KU. The workshop was attended by SEAT project teams from KU (Thailand), CTU (Vietnam) and UoS (UK). We learned about the principles and usage of CMLCA, inventories and databases, using LCA survey data with CMLCA program, and entering field survey data into the databases in the dropboxes. On the last day, we were able to discuss about work plans to complete the WP3 deliverables.