The potential of using sunflower for biofuel production in Tuscany (central Italy) have been recently analyzed in terms of both
vegetable oil[16] and biodiesel [9] production. Furthermore, a
number of studies have focused on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)
of vegetable oil and biodiesel small-scale production processes
from sunflower cultivation in the Tuscany region[11,12,17e19].
However, the results of LCA studies largely depend on the quality of
the information used as input in the analysis[18]. Average biomass
yields or predicted yields obtained using different models are often
used in these studies