Social Life Cycle Assessment of Solar Drier House

Social Life Cycle Assessment of Solar Drier House

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Agricultural products are dried to improve their life-span, enable storage stability, and reduce postharvest losses. Open-sun crop drying is the most popular method in Sub-Saharan Africa because it has a lower energy cost. However, this method is more often unsuitable due to climatic conditions in some areas, resulting in poor-quality drying and sp...

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... IV: Goal setting Goal of the Social Life Cycle Assessment was to assess the social aspects of SDH based on the scoring system on a five-point scale between -2 and +2, where 0 represents the baseline conditions, positive values represent an improvement and negative values represent a deterioration in comparison with the baseline conditions. The adoption of UNEP methodology gives us the stakeholder categories with significant social significance results as indicated in Table 2. ...

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