Data
Agrifood systems' share of FAO's all-sector greenhouse gas total (net land use, no international transport)
The part of FAO's all-sector greenhouse gas total that comes from food and farming systems each year since 1990, as published by FAO: FAO's agrifood-systems emissions (on farms, from clearing land for agriculture, and from making, moving, selling, cooking and throwing away food) as a percentage of FAO's own total of all sectors, which includes net land use, land-use change and forestry and excludes international aviation and shipping. The agrifood figure counts clearing land for farming without subtracting what forests take up, while the total's land use is net of that uptake, so this is not a share of gross global emissions. Food's emissions run across the agriculture, land-use, energy, industry and waste sectors; they are not a sector of their own.
Latest value
31.7%
World, 2023. Version 2025-10-28.
Agrifood systems' share of FAO's all-sector greenhouse gas total (net land use, no international transport) (percent of FAO's all-sector total (net land use, no international transport))
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| Period | Value (%) | Status |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 43.2 | final |
| 1991 | 43.0 | final |
| 1992 | 43.1 | final |
| 1993 | 43.0 | final |
| 1994 | 43.0 | final |
| 1995 | 42.9 | final |
| 1996 | 42.0 | final |
| 1997 | 43.4 | final |
| 1998 | 42.6 | final |
| 1999 | 42.0 | final |
| 2000 | 41.4 | final |
| 2001 | 38.4 | final |
| 2002 | 38.8 | final |
| 2003 | 36.9 | final |
| 2004 | 37.0 | final |
| 2005 | 36.0 | final |
| 2006 | 36.0 | final |
| 2007 | 34.8 | final |
| 2008 | 34.4 | final |
| 2009 | 35.4 | final |
| 2010 | 33.9 | final |
| 2011 | 33.5 | final |
| 2012 | 33.2 | final |
| 2013 | 33.4 | final |
| 2014 | 33.8 | final |
| 2015 | 33.8 | final |
| 2016 | 32.5 | final |
| 2017 | 32.1 | final |
| 2018 | 31.8 | final |
| 2019 | 31.8 | final |
| 2020 | 32.7 | final |
| 2021 | 31.9 | final |
| 2022 | 31.6 | final |
| 2023 | 31.7 | final |
Where it comes from
- Producer
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Statistics Division · FAOSTAT greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors (with PRIMAP-hist v2.7)
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- 2025-10-28
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- FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT. Accessed on 5 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Energy, industrial processes, waste and other emissions: Gütschow, J., Busch, D. & Pflüger, M. (2025). The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series (1750-2024) v2.7. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17090760 Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
- Producer
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Statistics Division · FAOSTAT greenhouse gas emissions from all sectors (with PRIMAP-hist v2.7)
- Version
- 2025-10-28
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- 2026-10-05 (automatically), 109,120 bytes
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- sha256 008f475c971a7770c69b1bc48f1c3a5fa8bf3873e762d6e1e9516bb0a700ebdaETag W/"157c9ec8e5eea09a02497cc10f67bcdb" · Last-Modified Mon, 05 Oct 2026 12:49:35 GMT
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- FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT. Accessed on 5 October 2026. https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data Licence: CC-BY-4.0. Energy, industrial processes, waste and other emissions: Gütschow, J., Busch, D. & Pflüger, M. (2025). The PRIMAP-hist national historical emissions time series (1750-2024) v2.7. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17090760 Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
What was done to it
Read Climate_change_Emissions_indicators_E_All_Data_(Normalized).csv from FAOSTAT's Emissions indicators (EM) bulk zip. The vintage is the domain's DateUpdate, 28 October 2025, from FAOSTAT's bulk-download catalogue (datasets_E.json), whose entry names this zip and gives FileRows 678,370, the number of data rows in this file. The zip was last modified on the server on Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:06:06 GMT.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
Kept the World (area code 5000) rows of item "Agrifood systems" (code 6518), element "Emissions Share (CO2eq) (AR5)" (code 726313), unit "%", 1990–2023, as FAO prints them: FAO's own share of agrifood-system emissions in its "All sectors with LULUCF" total. Nothing is computed here.
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
Every value used carries FAO's flag E, which the file's codebook defines as "Estimated value".
Code: pipeline/src/envdash/transforms/emissions/faostat_all_sectors.py · code sha256 6289feaf5cb49780… · inputs d48bf98589cc… 008f475c971a…
What it covers
- Geography
- World
- Gases combined with
- AR5-GWP100
- Land use, land-use change and forestry
- included
- Basis
- FAO's published share (FAOSTAT Emissions indicators, item "Agrifood systems", element "Emissions Share (CO2eq) (AR5)"). Numerator: emissions within the farm gate, from land-use change and from pre- and post-production (fertilizer manufacturing, processing, packaging, transport, retail, household consumption and waste disposal); its land-use change counts only what FAO attributes to agriculture (deforestation and fires in humid tropical forests and organic soils), with the carbon taken up by forests not subtracted. Denominator: FAO's "All sectors with LULUCF" total of the six IPCC sectors, in which land use is net of the forest sink; international aviation and shipping bunkers are a separate item and are not in it.
- Unit
- percent of FAO's all-sector total (net land use, no international transport) (%)