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Climate-Smart Agriculture
Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems: building the evidence base
SOURCE: Environmental Research Letters
| 2021
An expanded analysis that factored in long-overlooked factors such as transporation, packaging and waste estimates the food system’s carbon footprint is 1/3 of toal global greenhouse gas emissions.
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