ABSTRACT
Environmental issues like climate change affect the sustainability of agricultural crop production all over the world and the plantation sector is no exception. Currently, there is a growing demand for environmental awareness and precautionary measures to mitigate or reduce the rate of environmental degradation, or stop it altogether. Therefore, it is becoming vital to assess the environmental impact of different agricultural cropping systems. In particular, following the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20) in 2012, the global community was urged to follow a sustainable consumption and production (SCP) strategy. Considering its importance, it was named as the 12th of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) (UNEP, 2015).
