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Climate-Smart Agriculture
Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods
SOURCE: Springer Nature
| 2021
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, this paper provides spatially explicit estimates of production- and consumption-based GHG emissions worldwide from plant- and animal-based human food in circa 2010.
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