What’s on the table? Mitigating agricultural emissions while achieving food security

The analysis indicates that farming practice changes alone are insufficient to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Achieving deep emission cuts aligned with the Paris Agreement's net-zero goal requires a holistic approach that integrates supply-side efficiency and innovation with demand-side changes, specifically altering diets and reducing food waste to address non-CO2 emissions while ensuring global food security.

• Reducing agricultural emissions through changes in farming practices alone is insufficient to limit global warming to 1.5°C; a holistic approach including diet changes and reduced food waste is required for significant additional reductions.
• Mitigation strategies must address both the supply side, through efficiency and innovation, and the demand side, where consumer behavior in food transport, storage, and consumption is critical.
• Shifts in consumer behavior can provide substantial public health benefits and offer high potential for deep reductions in non-CO2 agricultural emissions while meeting global food demand.

APA

NewClimate Institute (2018). What’s on the table? Mitigating agricultural emissions while achieving food security. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/whats-on-the-table-mitigating-agricultural-emissions-while-achieving-food

Chicago

NewClimate Institute. What’s on the table? Mitigating agricultural emissions while achieving food security. 2018. http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/whats-on-the-table-mitigating-agricultural-emissions-while-achieving-food.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{newclimateinstitute2018whats, author = {{NewClimate Institute}}, title = {{What’s on the table? Mitigating agricultural emissions while achieving food security}}, institution = {NewClimate Institute}, year = {2018}, month = jan, url = {http://www.newclimate.org/resources/publications/whats-on-the-table-mitigating-agricultural-emissions-while-achieving-food}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }