Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods
| dc.creator | Xu, X.; Sharma, P.; Shu, S. et al. | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-27T13:44:06Z | |
| dc.date | 2023-04-27T13:44:06Z | |
| dc.date | 2021 | |
| dc.date | 2021-10-01T15:33:36.0000000Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-27T23:06:48Z | |
| dc.description | Agriculture and land use are major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but previous estimates were either highly aggregate or provided spatial details for subsectors obtained via different methodologies. Using a model-data integration approach that ensures full consistency between subsectors, we provide spatially explicit estimates of production- and consumption-based GHG emissions worldwide from the plant and animal-based human food in circa 2010. Global GHG emissions from the production of food were found to be 17,318 ± 1,675 TgCO2eq yr−1, of which 57% corresponds to the production of animal-based food (including livestock feed), 29% to plant-based foods, and 14% to other utilizations. Farmland management and land-use change represented major shares of total emissions (38% and 29%, respectively), whereas rice and beef were the largest contributing plant- and animal-based commodities (12% and 25%, respectively), and South and Southeast Asia and South America were the largest emitters of production-based GHGs. | |
| dc.format | 9p. | |
| dc.format | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier | https://openknowledge.fao.org/handle/20.500.14283/cb7033en | |
| dc.identifier | http://www.fao.org/3/cb7033en/cb7033en.pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/272189 | |
| dc.language | English | |
| dc.publisher | Springer Nature ; | |
| dc.rights | Non-FAO | |
| dc.rights | CC BY NC SA 3.0 IGO | |
| dc.title | Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods | |
| dc.type | Article |