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| Sunita Narain |
| Editor, Down To Earth |
 Twitter: @sunitanar
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Let’s discuss food’s climate impact
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It all boils down to fuel and food. I am talking about the emissions that have “forced” the world’s climate to change, leading now to catastrophic events. While we discuss the contribution of the energy system—fossil fuels that emit long-living carbon dioxide—we don’t talk enough about the other elephant in the room; agriculture and the food we eat. This is because more than any other economic sector, agriculture creates a divide between the world that emits for survival and the one that emits for luxury.
In 2018, some 11 per cent of the global greenhouse gas emissions were from food the world produced; of this, the bulk of emissions (roughly 40 per cent) were from enteric fermentation in the digestive systems of ruminant livestock. Food-producing animals emit methane, which is a powerful greenhouse gas. Another 26 per cent of the agriculture-related emissions were nitrous oxide from livestock manure applied in fields or dumped. Synthetic fertilisers used on crops then added 13 per cent nitrous oxide and methane emissions from rice cultivation contributed 10 per cent of the total agriculture-related emissions...
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