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December 8, 2025AgriEngineeringOpen Access

A Critical Review of Life Cycle Assessments of Cocoa: Environmental Impacts and Methodological Challenges for Sustainable Production

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RCRamón Fernando Colmenares-QuinteroSPSara Piedrahita-Rodríguez

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Overview

Critical review identifies significant environmental impacts in cocoa cultivation, suggesting methods for sustainable production.

Key Points

  • This review aims to analyze the environmental impacts of cocoa through Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) and discuss methodological challenges.
  • Systematic literature review of 33 LCA studies published between 2008 and 2025
  • Use of PRISMA methodology and cluster analysis to identify impact indicators and boundary conditions
  • Focus on environmental dimensions and socioeconomic integration methods.
  • Cultivation has high water consumption, especially in conventional monocultures.
  • Processing is the most energy-intensive phase due to machinery and transport demands.
  • Most studies employ cradle-to-gate system boundaries and rely on secondary databases for data.
  • LCA identifies environmental hotspots but is limited by data gaps and integration issues.

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Colmenares-Quintero et al. (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/693624ce4fa91c937236cdc2https://doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering7120419
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