Farming implicated in climate change
Food production accounts for almost one third of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to a study published last week by the agricultural research organisation CGIAR. Food systems, from growing crops and raising livestock to storage and transportation, contribute 19 to 29 per cent of global man-made GHG emissions, releasing 9,800 to 16,900 megatonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2008, the report Climate Change and Food Systems by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security said… According to Cambodia’s Initial National Communication under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change from 2002, agriculture accounted for 15.5 per cent of GHG emissions and removals in the 1994 GHG inventory. Within the agricultural sector, domestic livestock accounted for 48.1 per cent of greenhouse gas and precursors emissions in 1994, followed by rice cultivation with 29.9 per cent and agricultural soil of 20.9 per cent.
