1990-2015 data from EDGAR-FOOD and FAOSTAT details greenhouse gas emissions across the global food system. The inventory covers all countries annually, disaggregating emissions by stage of the food chain. It was developed by researchers to analyze energy demand, agriculture, and land use change emissions.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in land-use-change-related emissions from agriculture using the LULUC (Production) stage data.
- Compare the share of total food system emissions attributed to different system stages across countries.
- Model the relationship between economic development and emissions intensity by food system stage over the 25-year period.
- Benchmark national food system emission profiles against global averages using the country-level yearly data.
Strengths
- Covers all countries with yearly frequency for a 25-year period (1990-2015).
- Integrates data from two established sources: EDGAR-FOOD and FAOSTAT.
- First database to consistently cover each stage of the food chain globally.
Limitations
- Data ends in 2015, creating a significant temporal gap for current analysis.
- Specific row count, column details, and sample size are unknown.
- Methodological integration of two distinct data sources may introduce consistency challenges.
Provenance
- Source
- EDGAR-FOOD global emission inventory and FAOSTAT database (FAO, 2020).
- Collection Method
- Emission inventory modeling complemented with agricultural land use GHG data.
- Time Range
- 1990-2015
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Global, all countries.