Reducing greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture without compromising food security?

• Published in: Environmental research letters Vol. 12; no. 10; pp. 105004 - 105017
• Main Authors: Frank, Stefan, Havlík, Petr, Soussana, Jean-François, Levesque, Antoine, Valin, Hugo, Wollenberg, Eva, Kleinwechter, Ulrich, Fricko, Oliver, Gusti, Mykola, Herrero, Mario, Smith, Pete, Hasegawa, Tomoko, Kraxner, Florian, Obersteiner, Michael
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 01.10.2017
• Subjects: AFOLU; Agricultural economics; Agricultural land; Agricultural production; Agriculture; Availability; Calories; Carbon; Carbon sequestration; Climate change; Climate change mitigation; Climate effects; Economic sectors; Elasticity of demand; Emissions; Emissions control; Food; Food availability; Food security; Global climate; Global warming; Greenhouse effect; Greenhouse gases; Land use; Life Sciences; open climate campaign; partial equilibrium model; Population density; Production costs; soil carbon; afolu; climate change mitigation; soil carbon; food security

To keep global warming possibly below 1.5 °C and mitigate adverse effects of climate change, agriculture, like all other sectors, will have to contribute to efforts in achieving net negative emissions by the end of the century. Cost-efficient distribution of mitigation across regions and economic se...