Editing Agriculture (section)

=== Contribution to climate change ===
{{Main|2 = Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture}}
[[File:World Farm-gate Greenhouse Gas Emissions By Activity.svg|thumb|World farm-gate greenhouse gas emissions by activity]]
Agriculture contributes towards [[climate change]] through [[greenhouse gas emissions]] and by the conversion of non-agricultural land such as [[forest]]s into agricultural land.<ref>Section 4.2: Agriculture's current contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, in: {{cite book |author=HLPE |title=Food security and climate change. A report by the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on Food Security and Nutrition of the Committee on World Food Security |url=http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/reports/hlpe-food-security-and-climate-change-report-elaboration-process/en/ |publisher=[[Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations]] |location=Rome, Italy |date=June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141212075812/http://www.fao.org/cfs/cfs-hlpe/reports/hlpe-food-security-and-climate-change-report-elaboration-process/en/ |archive-date=12 December 2014 |pages=67–69}}</ref> The agriculture, forestry and land use sector contribute between 13% and 21% of global greenhouse gas emissions.<ref name="IPCC2022">{{cite book |chapter-url=https://ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_Chapter07.pdf |chapter=Chapter 7: Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses (AFOLU) |title=Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change |display-authors=etal |last1=Nabuurs |first1=G-J. |last2=Mrabet |first2=R. |last3=Abu Hatab |first3=A. |last4=Bustamante |first4=M. |doi=10.1017/9781009157926.009 |page=750 |url=https://research.wur.nl/en/publications/agriculture-forestry-and-other-land-uses-afolu |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221226114238/https://ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg3/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGIII_Chapter07.pdf |archive-date=26 December 2022}}.</ref> Emissions of [[nitrous oxide]], [[methane]] make up over half of total greenhouse gas emission from agriculture.<ref name="FAO2020">{{cite report |author=FAO |year=2020 |title=Emissions due to agriculture. Global, regional and country trends 2000–2018. |issn=2709-0078 |series=FAOSTAT Analytical Brief Series |url=https://www.fao.org/3/cb3808en/cb3808en.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210617210116/https://www.fao.org/3/cb3808en/cb3808en.pdf |archive-date=17 June 2021 |volume=18 |location=Rome |page=2}}</ref> [[Animal husbandry]] is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=How livestock farming affects the environment |url=https://www.downtoearth.org.in/factsheet/how-livestock-farming-affects-the-environment-64218 |access-date=10 February 2022 |website=www.downtoearth.org.in |archive-date=30 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230130055211/https://www.downtoearth.org.in/factsheet/how-livestock-farming-affects-the-environment-64218 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Approximately 57% of global GHG emissions from the production of food are from the production of animal-based food while plant-based foods contribute 29% and the remaining 14% is for other utilizations.<ref name=":12">{{Cite journal |last1=Xu |first1=Xiaoming |last2=Sharma |first2=Prateek |last3=Shu |first3=Shijie |last4=Lin |first4=Tzu-Shun |last5=Ciais |first5=Philippe |last6=Tubiello |first6=Francesco N. |last7=Smith |first7=Pete |last8=Campbell |first8=Nelson |last9=Jain |first9=Atul K. |date=2021 |title=Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00358-x |journal=Nature Food |volume=2 |issue=9 |pages=724–732 |doi=10.1038/s43016-021-00358-x |pmid=37117472 |hdl=2164/18207 |s2cid=240562878 |issn=2662-1355 |hdl-access=free |access-date=14 March 2023 |archive-date=3 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403203405/https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00358-x |url-status=live}}</ref> Farmland management and [[land-use change]] represented major shares of total emissions (38% and 29%, respectively), whereas rice and beef were the largest contributing plant- and animal-based commodities (12% and 25%, respectively).<ref name=":12" /> South and Southeast Asia and South America were the largest emitters of production-based GHGs.<ref name=":12" />