HESTIA Aggregated Agri-food Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Data

Description

National and global weighted averages of the environmental impacts of agricultural and food production, aggregated from the farm-level cycles published on the HESTIA platform.Each release is a self-contained snapshot in JSON-LD: validated aggregated impact assessments with the cycles they describe, those cycles' sites, and every glossary term and bibliographic source any of them reference, so a release resolves without leaving the bucket. Alongside it sits a flat Parquet mirror of the mid-point and end-point indicators, for querying without parsing JSON-LD, and an index mapping product to country to year to aggregation.The 2025-05-01 release covers 70 products across 37 countries, spanning 1990-2025, with 54 indicators computed under 18 characterisation models (ReCiPe, LC-Impact, Environmental Footprint and others). Releases are added here once they are freely available to everyone.

Update Frequency

With each HESTIA data release, roughly two to three per year. A release is added here 182 days after its version date, once it is freely available to everyone.

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Documentation

https://www.hestia.earth/guide/guide-accessing-data-aws-open-data

Managed By

HESTIA, University of Oxford

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Contact

community@hestia.earth

How to Cite

HESTIA Aggregated Agri-food Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Data was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/hestia-aggregated-data.

Usage Examples

Tutorials

• Get to know the HESTIA aggregated agri-food LCA dataset by HESTIA
  
  Amazon S3

Tools & Applications

• HESTIA platform by HESTIA