Description: 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.
Bibliographic
Published
2021-11-05
Keywords
Agri-food systems
Climate change
Emissions
land use change
Greenhouse gas emissions
farm-gate
supply chains
Funder
License
This work is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO license (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/igo). In addition to this license, some database specific terms of use are listed: Terms of Use of Datasets.
Coverage
Temporal
Begin
1990
End
2019
Spatial
Attributes
Name
Description
Unit
AreaName
Country names (Also includes world and regional classifications)
ISO3
Three letter ISO3 country codes
ItemName
Set of items covered in the data set
ElementName
Set of elements covered in the data set (CO2, CH4, N2O, F-gases, CO2eq)