Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Taken from
Livestock's Long Shadow
, except the column on the right has been calculated by SF from the other data.
Values in brackets are or include emissions from land use, landuse change and forestry (LULUCF). Rela-tively imprecise
estimates are presented by a tilde. The FAO's publicized figure of 18% for total livestock contri-bution to total anthropo-
genic GHGs is actually 17.75% if it is reached by dividing 7.1 by 40.
Credit: FAO
(i) Deforestation has declined since
Livestock's Long Shadow
was written
The first of these reasons is that the amount of deforestation changes from year to year,
often quite significantly, and so any calculation has to be based on projections, which can
