EDGAR-FOOD inventory data provides greenhouse gas emissions from global food systems, disaggregated by gas type. The dataset covers all countries with yearly data from 1990 to 2015, created by researchers and complemented with FAO land-use emissions data. It represents a consistent global inventory for the entire food chain.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in CO2 equivalent emissions from food production and distribution stages over the 1990-2015 period.
- Compare contributions of different greenhouse gases like CO2, CH4, and N2O from national food systems.
- Model the relationship between emissions from specific food system stages and national agricultural output data.
- Benchmark a country's food system emissions against global averages using the consistent EDGAR-FOOD methodology.
Strengths
- Covers all countries, providing a complete global scope.
- Offers yearly frequency for a 26-year time range from 1990 to 2015.
- Consistently covers each stage of the food chain from production to disposal.
Limitations
- Data ends in 2015, creating a significant temporal gap for current analysis.
- Specific row counts, column details, and sample sizes are not provided.
Provenance
- Source
- EDGAR-FOOD global emission inventory, complemented with FAOSTAT data.
- Collection Method
- Generated from the EDGAR-FOOD inventory methodology detailed in Crippa et al. (2021).
- Time Range
- 1990-2015
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Global, all countries