Options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and food systems

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.initiativeRethinking Food Marketsen_US
cg.creator.identifierRob Vos: 0000-0002-4496-080Xen_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Markets, Trade, and Institutions Uniten_US
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot rankeden_US
cg.placeWashington, DCen_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaPoverty reduction, livelihoods and jobsen_US
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Willen_US
dc.contributor.authorVos, Roben_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-07T21:25:16Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-01-07T21:25:16Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/168658en_US
dc.titleOptions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and food systemsen_US
dcterms.abstractFood systems generate about one third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Without reducing them, it will not be possible to stabilize the climate and keep the increase in global temperature below 1.5oC from pre industrial levels. About 50 percent of agricultural emissions (in CO2eq) comes from methane, a super potent GHG, mostly from livestock production and rice cultivation. We consider six broad approaches to emission reduction from agriculture—emission taxes, repurposing of farm subsidies, regulations, investing in green innovations, carbon credits, and demand-side interventions. We find that not only carbon taxes on agricultural production, but also rearranging agricultural subsidies will have only small impacts in terms of improving human and planetary health. Regulatory approaches, including conditionality and payment for environmental services (PES) can be counterproductive if they lower yields and require expansion of agricultural land use. Instead, we find that investing more in R&D for sustainable intensification of agriculture focused on productivity enhancing innovations have strong potential to generate major efficiency gains, drastic reductions in emissions and improved food security. Demand interventions designed to contribute both to environmental goals and improvements in health outcomes can play a supporting role. Since multiple sustainable development goals are to be achieved, no single instrument by itself will be effective. Instead, multiple policy instruments will need to be bundled and designed to create synergies and address trade-offs.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceCGIARen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationMartin, Will; and Vos, Rob. 2024. Options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and food systems. Rethinking Food Markets Initiative Technical Paper. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/168658en_US
dcterms.extent35 p.en_US
dcterms.issued2024-12-31en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-NC-4.0en_US
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen_US
dcterms.subjectfood systemsen_US
dcterms.subjectgreenhouse gas emissionsen_US
dcterms.subjectagricultureen_US
dcterms.subjecttaxesen_US
dcterms.subjectsubsidiesen_US
dcterms.subjectregulationsen_US
dcterms.subjectsustainable development goalsen_US
dcterms.typeWorking Paperen_US

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