José HOLGUIN

During my internship, my study accounted for the environmental impacts of a Building Integrated Non Conditioned (BI-NC) rooftop farm in Paris, France. Through LCA methodology we have compared the urban farm to conventional food supplies. We have contributed to UA from a quantitative perspective in order to help develop the area in a more sustainable way. The environmental impacts directly relate to the farming methods, materials used, amount of yield, and crop time. Keeping this in mind, this study supports the fact that BI-NC systems are more efficient and have less environmental impacts than conditioned systems (e.g. farms with greenhouses). We analyzed the results of all the crops aggregated together and of tomatoes separately in both cases the results shown to have lower GWP than monocrop tomato farms in France and Morocco. The results for the farm considering the aggregation of all crops were 0.4KgCO 2 eq and for tomatoes 0.348 KgCO 2 eq. Thus, making the farm more efficient in comparison to other conventional and urban farms.