Archive:Agriculture - greenhouse gas emission statistics
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This article focuses on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture and aims to give an overview of selected statistics and indicators in the European Union (EU).
The concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere has grown mainly as a result of human activity. Greenhouse gases trap heat that would otherwise escape into space and they radiate it back towards the earth’s surface: a phenomenon known as the ‘greenhouse effect’. The growth of greenhouse gas emissions may be linked to rising temperatures, otherwise referred to as ‘global warming’.
Some greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), occur naturally and are emitted to the atmosphere through natural processes. However, carbon dioxide emissions also result from human activities, primarily the burning of fossil fuels (oil, natural gas and coal). Some other greenhouse gases (for example, fluorinated gases) are generated and emitted solely as a result of human activities (for example, industrial processes). Like most economic sectors, agriculture produces greenhouse gases. Agricultural emissions are generally linked to the management of agricultural soils, livestock, rice production and biomass burning. The main agricultural sources of greenhouse gas emissions are: - enteric fermentation (flatulence) by ruminant animals such as cattle, sheep and goats, which produce methane (CH4) emissions; enteric fermentation is a natural part of the digestive process for many ruminants as anaerobic microbes, decompose and ferment food in the rumen that are then absorbed by the ruminant; this digestion process is not 100 % efficient, so some of the food energy is lost in the form of methane; measures to mitigate enteric fermentation would not only reduce emissions, they may also raise animal productivity by increasing digestive efficiency; - soil nitrification and denitrification, which produces nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions; nitrification is the aerobic microbial oxidation of ammonium (NH4) to nitrates (NO3), whereas denitrification is the anaerobic microbial reduction of nitrates to nitrogen gas (N2); - manure decomposition, which produces methane and nitrous oxide emissions. In recent years, greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture have been influenced by a number of factors: general underlying economic trends; regulatory instruments; farm management practices; and trends in the number of ruminant animals.
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