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Helping countries reduce agricultural greenhouse gas emissions

With the consequences of climate change for the world's food production systems becoming increasingly clear, more needs to be done to capitalize on agriculture's potential to mitigate global warming, says a new FAO guidance document published today. Agriculture is directly responsible for over 10 percent of all human-caused greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, FAO figures show. But improved farming ...

Aug. 6, 2013

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Agriculture`s greenhouse gas emissions on the rise

New FAO estimates of greenhouse gas data show that emissions from agriculture, forestry and fisheries have nearly doubled over the past fifty years and could increase an additional 30 percent by 2050, without greater efforts to reduce them. This is the first time that FAO has released its own global estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture, forestry and other land use ...

Apr. 11, 2014

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Emissions from Crops POST note 486 issued by Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology

The Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology issued "Emissions from Crops" a POST note (486) on 20th January 2015. Agriculture contributes 9% of the UK's greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions burden and 10-12&% globally. Although there is a long-term declining trend from UK agriculture, the sector may account for a larger share of overall emissions in the future as other sectors reduce ...

Jan. 27, 2015

By The British Society of Soil Science

Agriculture and Livestock Remain Major Sources of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

New Worldwatch Institute study examines the agricultural sector’s impact on global greenhouse gas emissions Washington, D.C.—Global greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector totaled 4.69 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent in 2010 (the most recent year for which data are available), an increase of 13 percent over 1990 emissions. By comparison, global CO2 ...

May 8, 2013

By Worldwatch Institute

Report highlights conflict in agricultural research

Efforts to increase food production are clashing with efforts to reduce agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions says a group of international scientists. Agricultural research to improve food security often depends on technology to increase yields and crop intensification -- resulting in greenhouse gas emissions that damage the environment and help increase climate change, an independent ...

Nov. 17, 2011

By SciDev.Net

Europe can go organic

Europe could be farmed entirely through agroecological approaches such as organic and still feed a growing population, a new scientific paper released yesterday shows. Published a week after research revealed a steep decline in global insect populations linked to pesticide use, the ‘Ten Years for Agroecology’ study from European think tank IDDRi shows that pesticides can be phased ...

Feb. 21, 2019

By The Ecologist

Editor`s Note - Planetary Health Diets and Aquaculture

For aquaculture, resource constraints mean that production from existing land area must increase, a goal that is difficult without simultaneously increasing greenhouse gas emissions associated with greater energy use. For this, decarbonization of the world’s energy system must be accelerated. In January, a report was issued with the title “Food in The Anthropocene: the EAT-Lancet ...

May 2, 2019

By World Aquaculture Society

Global food demand scenarios for the 21st century: new online tool

Global food demand will double until mid-century, and in particular the demand for animal products will rise rapidly, a study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shows. The development of future diets is not only crucial for food security and nutrition, but also for greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. Using a new simple and transparent tool, the scientists investigated ...

Nov. 5, 2015

By The Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Position paper Climate-smart agriculture

Climate change fundamentally shifts the agricultural development agenda. Changing temperature and precipitation, sea level rise, and the rising frequency of extreme climate events will significantly reduce global food production in this century unless action is taken. Major investments, private and public, will be needed. Adapting agriculture to climate change is necessary to achieve food ...

Apr. 15, 2014

By Wageningen University and Research Centre

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Produced by the UK’s Arable Sector Significantly Lower Than Previously Thought!

Nitrous oxide is an important greenhouse gas, contributing more than 40% of agriculture’s greenhouse gas emissions. Previously, production levels of nitrous oxide from soil were calculated at 1% a unit of nitrogen (N) applied. However, Farmers Weekly report that the five-year average Minimising Nitrous Oxide (MIN-NO) research study estimate for UK arable land is 0.46% of N applied, taking ...

Nov. 9, 2015

By ENDURAMAXX Storage Tanks

GM rapeseed could reduce fertiliser usage

Nitrogen fertiliser used in crop production is a substantial source of environmental pollution, contributing to around one third of the total greenhouse gas emissions from the world's agricultural sector. Recent research on a genetically modified (GM) variety of rapeseed, which has been made more nitrogen-efficient, suggests that yields comparable with conventional varieties can be obtained using ...

Jul. 17, 2008

By European Commission, Environment DG

Arcadia Biosciences Takes Next Step to Enable Farmers to Receive Carbon Credits for Reduced Nitrogen Fertilizer Use

Arcadia Biosciences, Inc., an agricultural technology company focused on developing technologies and products that benefit the environment and human health, today announced that the company has submitted a carbon credit methodology to the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The methodology would allow ...

Apr. 2, 2012

By Arcadia Biosciences, Inc.

For the first time, GHG protocol to help Brazil measure greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

This past Sunday, WRI’s Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol team conducted a session at the Rio+20 event, “The Green Economy: Driving Business Value and Competitiveness.” The session included great dialogue between business leaders, policy makers, and WRI experts, and featured one very significant declaration: The British Ambassador to Brazil, Alan Charlton, announced GHG ...

Jun. 21, 2012

By World Resources Institute WRI

Crop performance matters when evaluating GHGs

Measuring the emission of greenhouse gases from croplands should take into account the crops themselves. That’s the conclusion of a study in the September-October issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality, which examined the impact of farm practices such as tillage on the greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide (N2O). Expressing emissions per unit of crop yield rather than on a more conventional ...

Sep. 6, 2011

By Soil Science Society of America (SSSA)

FAO Statistical Yearbook paints a big, and detailed, picture of food and agriculture

The 2013 edition of FAO's Statistical Yearbook released today sheds new light on agriculture's contribution to global warming, trends in hunger and malnutrition and the state of the natural resource base upon which world food production depends. Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture grew 1.6 percent per year during the decade after the year 2000, new FAO data presented in the yearbook show, ...

Jun. 19, 2013

By Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

On world environment day, new book points to food and farming as key to protecting the environment

Worldwide, 30 percent of food is wasted, 1 billion people go to bed hungry each night while another 1 billion suffer from health problems related to obesity, and agriculture contributes to one-third global greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, young people are increasingly disconnected from how their food is grown, making solutions to the global agricultural system seem even further out of ...

May 31, 2012

By Worldwatch Institute

Carbon sinks losing the battle with rising emissions

“Forests, grasslands and oceans are absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere faster than ever but they are not keeping pace with rapidly rising emissions,” says CSIRO scientist and co-Chair of the Global Carbon Project, Dr Mike Raupach. “While these natural CO2 sinks are a huge buffer against climate change, which would occur about twice as fast without them, they cannot be taken for ...

Mar. 11, 2009

By CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Robert Janzen joins ClimateCHECK as Director of Western Canada

ClimateCHECK is pleased to announce that Robert Janzen, PhD, PAg, has joined the firm as Director of Western Canada. Rob has several years of experience as President of Agrologics Consulting Ltd., from which he brings highly technical expertise and experience concerning greenhouse gas (GHG) dynamics associated with agricultural and environmental systems to ClimateCHECK. Rob’s education ...

Jun. 8, 2007

By ClimateCHECK

The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition presents “eating planet 2012:” new book points to food, farming as key to improving health, environment, and equality worldwide

Worldwide, 30 percent of food is wasted, 1 billion people go to bed hungry each night while another 1 billion suffer from health problems related to obesity. Meanwhile, young people are increasingly disconnected from how their food is grown, making solutions to the global agricultural system – which contributes one third of global greenhouse gas emissions – seem even further out of ...

Apr. 21, 2012

By Worldwatch Institute

Chevrolet supports grassland preservation program

Chevrolet has become the first corporate participant in a public-private initiative that pays farmers not to convert natural prairie to large-scale agriculture, which would release gases that are warming the planet, officials said Monday. The automaker, a division of General Motors, said it has bought more than 39,000 metric tons of carbon credits from North Dakota ranchers in the prairie ...

Nov. 17, 2014

By Associated Press

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