Food systems Emissions shares, 1990-2019

Greenhouse gas emissions from agri-food systems

(1990-2019)

Overview

We present results from the FAOSTAT emissions shares database which disseminates emissions from all economic sectors and from agri-food systems by gases (CO₂, CH4, N₂O, F-gases and their total in CO₂eq) relative to 236 countries and territories over the period 1990 – 2019.

In 2019, global greenhouse gas emissions from all economic sectors totaled about 54 billion tonnes CO₂eq (54 Gt CO₂eq), emissions from agri-food systems totaled 16.5 billion tonnes (Gt CO₂eq) representing 31 percent of the total anthropogenic emissions from all economic sectors.

This dataset focuses on emissions from agri-food systems which includes data on emissions from the farm-gate, land use change and pre- and post-production. The sum of these three sectors comprises the agri-food system emissions (16.5 Gt CO₂eq).

Pre- and post-production include emissions from: fertilizers manufacturing, on-farm electricity use, food processing, food transport, food retail, food waste disposal, food household consumption and food packaging.

Data Structure

The data is structured as a tabular data with attributes: AreaName, ISO3, ItemName, ElementName, Year, Value, Unit.

Attributes (Columns)

Attributes in the data are defined as below:

Files included in the dataset

We have included two files available for downloaded. The csv file contains the data in .csv format and a excel file contains data in .xlsx format.

Global warming potential (GWP)

In this data, the emissions total (CO₂eq) is computed by applying the GWP values from the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) as given below:

Data Sources

FAOSTAT climate change, emissions shares data, analytical brief.

The primap-hist national historical emissions timeseries data, paper.