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Mongabay: Growing, transporting, refrigerating, and wasting food accounts for somewhere between 19-29 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions in 2008, according to a new analysis by the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). In hard numbers that's between 9.8 and 16.9 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide, more than double the fossil fuel emissions of China in the same year. Over 80 percent of food emissions came from production (i.e. agriculture) which includes......
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From ‘fertilizer to fork’: food accounts for a quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on November 1st, 2012
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