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Food production generates more than a third of manmade greenhouse gas emissions – a new framework tells us how much comes from crops, countries and regions

  • Written by Xiaoming Xu, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Atmospheric Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Food production generates more than a third of manmade greenhouse gas emissions – a new framework tells us how much comes from crops, countries and regionsA farmer walks through a rice paddy in India's northeastern state of Assam. Buu Boro /AFP via Getty Images

Producing enough food for a growing world population is an urgent global challenge. And it’s complicated by the fact that climate change is warming the Earth and making farming harder in many places.

Food production is a big contributor...

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