Agri-food
Measure the environmental impact of your products using an LCA and prepare your environmental labeling
Why measure the environmental footprint of your food products?
Protect your profit margins in the face of dual pressures from markets and resources.
The agri-food sector faces two sources of instability: the volatility of natural resources on one hand, and increasingly stringent purchasing criteria from retailers on the other. In this context, measuring your products’ environmental footprint is no longer an option—it’s a key tool for managing industrial and commercial risks.
An environmental strategy managed with Kapstan allows you to:
- Meet retailers’ requirements: Validate the increasingly strict listing criteria of purchasing groups to secure your contracts.
- Prepare for environmental labeling: Control your messaging and anticipate the rollout of the Eco-Score or Planet-Score.
- Secure your supply chains: Ensure the long-term viability of your supply chains in the face of water stress and climate-related risks.
- Highlight your commitments: Increase the perceived value of your brands among consumers through scientific evidence.
LCA in the Agri-Food Sector: Measuring to Make Better Decisions
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Multi-criteria Environmental Assessment
To help you avoid focusing solely on carbon, we assess the overall impact of your products across four pillars: Climate, Biodiversity, Health, and Resources. This allows us, for example, to take into account certain issues such as nitrate runoff, which contributes to the eutrophication of freshwater and marine ecosystems.
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Measurement of Scope 3 (agricultural upstream)
More than 80% of the environmental footprint occurs before the processing plant, during the production of your raw materials. We identify the stages in your supply chains that generate the most emissions (crops, livestock, inputs) to help you make progress in partnership with your producers.
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Regulatory Compliance and Listing in Major Retail Chains
Our analyses strictly adhere to the official methodologies of the agri-food industry. You receive reliable and indisputable environmental data sheets that are ready to be incorporated into your clients’ CSR assessment grids and to safeguard your contracts.
Eco-design and Environmental Labeling in the Agri-Food Industry
Turning environmental data into drivers of profitability and sales.
For decision-makers in the agri-food industry, the green transition must support economic performance. Kapstan transforms your technical reports into two operational action plans:
- Eco-design of packaging and manufacturing: Eliminate waste at the source. We analyze your manufacturing cycles to reduce energy costs (refrigeration, cooking, steam) and streamline your packaging (primary, secondary, tertiary) to lower your material costs and Citeo eco-contributions. These projects identify simultaneous financial savings in energy, materials, and logistics.
- Environmental Labeling: Don’t just comply with rating scales—turn them into a selling point. By accurately measuring your products’ environmental footprint, you can compare different formulations or packaging options to highlight your best performance, reassure major retailers, and successfully integrate your products into the Eco-Score or Planet-Score systems.
Climate Risks: Adapting the Agri-Food Sector
Secure your supply chains and assess the vulnerability of your supply chains.
Extreme weather events are no longer distant possibilities: they are already simultaneously affecting crop yields, water availability, logistics infrastructure, and production capacity. As these disruptions accelerate, anticipating the vulnerabilities of your supply chains is essential to ensuring business continuity.
Kapstan helps you translate IPCC scenarios into operational decisions:
- Vulnerability Assessment: A detailed analysis of your plants’ and suppliers’ exposure to major physical risks (floods, heat waves, water shortages).
- Resilience Roadmap: Prioritization of your industrial investments to adapt your processes and secure your logistics flows for the long term.
Why choose Kapstan to support you?
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PEF Methodology and Official Standards
No in-house methodology. Our calculations comply with European regulations and are based on Agribalyse, ADEME’s reference database for the agri-food sector. You receive official, indisputable results that are ready for your environmental labeling.
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100% Verifiable Selling Points
We translate complex LCA technical data into clear and transparent messages for your marketing efforts. You can confidently highlight your commitments and provide concrete evidence to meet the requirements of retailers and consumers.
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Eco-Design Diagnosis Funding (Bpifrance & ADEME)
Kapstan is a consulting firm accredited by Bpifrance. This accreditation allows you to secure government grants to cover a significant portion of the cost of your eco-design and LCA projects, for which we provide support.
Any questions?
A carbon footprint measures only the greenhouse gas emissions of an organization or a product. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) takes a multi-criteria approach and also evaluates other environmental impacts such as water consumption, eutrophication, acidification, ecotoxicity, and resource use. In the food industry, this approach is essential to avoid shifting environmental impacts from one issue to another.
Yes. A life cycle assessment (LCA) takes into account the entire product life cycle, including primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging. This analysis helps identify opportunities to reduce environmental impact while managing constraints related to product protection, preservation, and your Citeo eco-contributions.
The preparation of an environmental label typically involves conducting an LCA in accordance with applicable standards, collecting reliable data on raw materials, processing, packaging, and transportation, and identifying the key areas for improvement. This approach provides robust and comparable indicators for assessing the environmental performance of products (Eco-Score, Planet-Score).
Mandatory environmental labeling of food products has not yet been widely implemented across the entire market. However, retailers, rating apps, and consumers are paying increasing attention to the environmental performance of products. Anticipating these trends allows companies to adapt their product lines and highlight their improvement initiatives.
Eco-design helps identify opportunities for improvement in raw materials, industrial processes, packaging, and logistics. It helps reduce environmental impacts while generating economic benefits related to energy consumption, materials used, and packaging costs.