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Food supply schemes are emerging to enable cities to face the dual challenge of meeting the growing needs of their populations while reducing their environmental impacts. In this context, quantitative assessment methods are needed to provide objective information on their ability to address these issues.

The URBALIM project aims to build an innovative methodological framework based on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approaches in order to:

i) provide a comprehensive environmental diagnosis of the food supply system in cities

ii) characterize in a lifecycle perspective the system vulnerability to environmental or socio-economic perturbations

iii) compare the eco-efficiency of different food supply strategies.

The feasibility and interest of the methodological framework will be tested in the Metropole of Montpellier, which is already involved into a sustainable urban food policy with research partners.

URBALIM is funded by the French National Research Agency ANR under the generic call for proposals 2020 - Young researcher's project for a 42-month period (start: april 2021). The amount granted is 166 k€.