
Marcela Porto Costa
@marcelapcosta
Food sustainability enthusiastic
Ph.D. researcher @BangorUni
Calculating the environmental footprint of legumes production and consumption @TrueLegumes
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcela-porto-costa/ 12-01-2012 19:58:47
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2nd continental #TrueLINworkshop in #Budapest with Session2 TRUE #H2020 project experiences about a #lentil renaissance, a #legume cookbook, #ChooseBeans project, the #environmental #footprint and trends in European #protein supply. SlowFoodDeutschland (slowfoodde.bsky.social) Alb-Leisa IGV GmbH Bangor University


Which toothbrush is the best for you AND the planet? traditional, electric, plastic, plastic w/ replaceable heads, bamboo? Happy to contribute to this paper by helping to model the bamboo alternative! Brett Duane Trinity College Dublin Bangor University @BangorSNS nature.com/articles/s4141…

New step towards a better assessment of sustainable #agrifood systems published by Marcela Porto Costa and the TRUE WP5 team on "Representing crop rotations in life cycle assessment: a review of #legume LCA studies": link.springer.com/article/10.100… EU_ScienceHub EU Research Results EU Science & Innovation 🇪🇺

I am glad to work with the amazing Sophie Saget! Check this research: -Pea protein balls score lower environmental burden and have higher nutrition than meatballs -Replacing 5% of beef consumed in Germany with pea protein balls could save 8Mt CO2e annually. TRUE Project

New popular science article by Mike Williams, Dave Styles and Marcela Porto Costa: "Why the humble legume could be the answer to Europe's fertiliser addiction" theconversation.com/why-the-humble… via The Conversation


At 13:25 Marcela Porto Costa will be talking about the "Environmental impact of introducing legumes into agricultural rotations and diet changes" with Dave Chadwick @bobmartinrees TRUE Project linkedin.com/in/marcela-por… read more about her research here: x.com/FrontSustain/s…

Llongyfarchiadau mawr iawn / Big congrats to Marcela Porto Costa on passing her PhD viva today. A great project @BangorSNS on the environmental impacts of integrating legumes into European food systems. Another one of our PhD students doing fascinating and important work!


Congratulations to Dr Marcela Porto Costa on passing her viva yesterday! Super interesting research on consequential life cycle analysis of legumes - should you swap meatballs for peaballs? Read her research to find out! bangor.ac.uk/natural-scienc…


Fantastic pre-viva talk by newly minted Dr Marcela Porto Costa, explaining with great clarity the enormous complexity of doing consequential LCA comparing legumes to meat and dairy. Also nice to be back to hybrid pre-viva talks with a real life audience! CoSE Postgrads at Bangor University

