ABSTRACT
Like all food products, fruits are under a growing scrutiny for their environmental impacts. Although often considered to have a lower environmental impact potential than most foods in western diets (Cerutti et al., 2014), fruit supply chains include a wide diversity of agricultural situations and functions which have not been covered by available studies. Moreover, export fruits are associated with a complex logistics chain including sorting, conditioning, transporting, refrigerating and waste management that also generate impacts. Both private and public institutions call today for the production of reliable reference studies on the environmental impacts of fruits at national and international levels (e.g. AGRIBALYSE, WFLDB, etc.). However, this interest concerns mostly western countries and far less developing countries in spite of important environmental challenges.
