To meet the mitigation target, agriculture needs urgent investment in:

Further work is also needed on reducing emissions throughout the food system, including: sequestering soil carbon, increasing agroforestry and avoiding deforestation, decreasing food loss & waste and shifting dietary patterns.

READ MORE:www.ccafs.cgiar.org/MitigationTargetAgriculture

Policies and standards that support more ambitious mitigation

Farmers’ capacity to use new practices

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However, known practices could deliver just

21-40% of the needed reduction, even if implemented fully at scale.

Emissions reductions from agriculture are not on track to meet the 2°C warming limit.

At the Paris climate conference,

119 countriescommitted to mitigation in agriculture, (but few set quantitative targets).

Reducing emissions from the industrial, transport and energy sectors will not be enough: agriculture is necessary to achieve the 2°C target.

Agriculture will need to limit its greenhouse gas emissions to only 6–8 gigatonnes of CO2e by 2030 while also increasing production.

*GtCO2e yr -1 = gigatonne of carbon dioxide equivalent per year

Calculations are for non-CO2 emissions. See article for range of scenarios.

This requires reducing non-CO2 emissions of

1 gigatonne CO2e per year

by 2030 based on our current trajectory.