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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1795-2022
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-1795-2022
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14 Apr 2022
Review article |
| 14 Apr 2022
| 14 Apr 2022
Pre- and post-production processes increasingly dominate greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems
Francesco N. Tubiello
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Kevin Karl
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York,
USA
Alessandro Flammini
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Department of Environment, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, Austria
Johannes Gütschow
Department of Transformation Pathways, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam, Germany
Griffiths Obli-Laryea
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Giulia Conchedda
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Xueyao Pan
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Sally Yue Qi
Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York,
USA
Hörn Halldórudóttir Heiðarsdóttir
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Nathan Wanner
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Roberta Quadrelli
International Energy Agency, Paris, France
Leonardo Rocha Souza
United Nations Statistics Division, New York, USA
Philippe Benoit
Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York,
USA
Matthew Hayek
Department of Environmental Studies, New York University, New York,
USA
David Sandalow
Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University, New York,
USA
Erik Mencos Contreras
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, USA
Climate Impacts Group, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA
Cynthia Rosenzweig
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University, New York, USA
Climate Impacts Group, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, USA
Jose Rosero Moncayo
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Piero Conforti
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
Maximo Torero
Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy
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Short summary
The paper presents results from the new FAOSTAT database on food system emissions, covering all countries over the time series 1990–2019. Results indicate and further clarify – updated to 2019 – the relevance of emissions from crop and livestock production processes within the farm gate; from conversion of natural ecosystems to agriculture, such as deforestation and peat degradation; and from use of fossil fuels for energy and other industrial processes along food supply chains.
The paper presents results from the new FAOSTAT database on food system emissions, covering all...
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