Seminar Series

Life cycle assessment of food enables the quantitative comparison of environmental impacts of alternative choices across the life cycle of food. In this session, Dr. Andrew Berardy, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, U.S. Military Academy at West Point, discussed solutions for sustainable food systems throughout the life cycle of food, including production and behavior change as well as the potential role of artificial intelligence. 

Additional resources:

• Presentation: A Life Cycle Thinking Approach to Sustainable Food Systems
• Publication: Environmental Impacts of Foods in the Adventist Health Study-2 Dietary Questionnaire
• Dissertation: Finding the future of food: sustainable consumption lessons from and for veganism
• Publication: Considering the Role of Life Cycle Analysis in Holistic Food Systems Research Policy and Practice
• Publication: A matrix approach to visually communicate simultaneously the environmental and health impacts of foods 

In this seminar session, Ora Kemp, Senior Policy Advisor, NYC Mayor’s Office of Food Policy, Castanea Fellow, shared how New York City is leveraging Food Forward—NYC’s 10-year food policy plan—and the NYC Food and Climate Strategy to build a more sustainable, circular, and collaborative food system for its 8 million residents and surrounding communities. 

Watch the recording of the June 2025 webinar that introduced the Food Systems Dashboard (FSD) 2024 competition winners, who shared their experiences utilizing the FSD in their work, and highlights how participants can leverage the FSD to access and analyze food systems data.

Access the presentation and the recording to learn more about the 2024 FSCI Report, tracking global progress on the Countdown's 50 indicators and examining interactions across indicators. Learn more about how the Food Systems Dashboard can be used to explore the those indicators.