Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (including the food chain)

By T. Garnett. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Food Science

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Limiting livestock production to pasture and by-products in a search for sustainable diets (2016, background): “Most importantly, overconsumption and waste must be curbed and consumption of resource-demanding foods must decrease in order to reach environmental objectives such as limiting expansion of agricultural land and reducing greenhouse gas emissions (Garnett, 2011; Bajzelj et al., 2014).”
Food security and sustainable intensification (2014, background): “Any serious attempt to reduce the rise in global temperature must include the agriculture sector, and this may constrain some avenues for increasing production [34–37].”
Dietary greenhouse gas emissions of meat-eaters, fish-eaters, vegetarians and vegans in the UK (2014, background): “Both methane and nitrous oxide are many times more potent GHGs than carbon dioxide and the majority of GHG emissions related to food are produced at the agricultural stage (Audsley et al. 2009; Garnett 2011).”
Reducing Meat Consumption in Today’s Consumer Society: Questioning the Citizen-Consumer Gap (2012, background): “This message is heard and passed on recently (e.g., Foresight 2011; Garnett 2011).”
Motivating Sustainable Food Choices (2014, background): “This is a viewpoint that is also endorsed in the literature; reduced meat consumption is widely recognized as an effective means of reducing the environmental footprint of the food system when considering all aspects of the production chain (e.g., see Garnett, 2011; Tukker & Jansen, 2006).”
Consolidating the current knowledge on urban agriculture in productive urban food systems: Learnings, gaps and outlook (2019, background): “The general consensus on the significance of extra-urban transport on overall emissions of the current food system is that the contributions are typically low and do not alone justify further localization of produce (Garnett, 2011; Weber & Matthews, 2008).”
Consumer perception and preference for suboptimal food under the emerging practice of expiration date based pricing in supermarkets (2018, background): “Thus, food waste is both an environmental and a social issue that needs to be tackled to achieve sustainable development of the food supply chain (Foley et al., 2011; Garnett, 2011), and reduce economic loss in the supply chain (Buzby &Hyman, 2012).”
Sustainable Food Security: An Emerging Research and Policy Agenda (2014, background): “…(12% vs 19%); it neglects issues related to the volume of the food transported as well as to the way in which consumers travel to purchase their food (Mariola, 2008); and it does not account for the environmental damage produced by foods that have been grown locally in glasshouses (Garnett, 2011).”