Food System Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Transport

1990-2015 yearly data provides greenhouse gas emissions from the transport stage of the global food system. The dataset was developed using the EDGAR-FOOD inventory and complemented with FAOSTAT data on land-use emissions. It was created to aid understanding of energy demand and emissions across the composite food system.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in transport-related food emissions over time using yearly frequency data from 1990-2015.
• Compare transport emissions share across different countries using the country-level coverage.
• Model the relationship between food system transport emissions and other system stages using disaggregated stage data.
• Assess the impact of agricultural land use changes on transport emissions using integrated FAOSTAT data.

Strengths

• Consistent yearly frequency for a 26-year period (1990-2015).
• Covers each stage of the food chain for all countries.
• Integrates data from two established sources: EDGAR-FOOD and FAOSTAT.

Limitations

• Data ends in 2015, lacking recent years for current analysis.
• Specific row count, column details, and sample size are unknown.
• Methodology reliance on modeled inventory data may introduce estimation errors.

Provenance

Source

EDGAR-FOOD emission inventory and FAOSTAT database.

Collection Method

Modeled global emission inventory complemented with statistical data.

Time Range

1990-2015

Geography

Global, all countries