Greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture sector presented for the first time in FAO Statistical yearbook 2013 The 2013 edition of FAO's Statistical Yearbook released today sheds new light on agriculture's contribution to global warming, trends in hunger and malnutrition and the state of the natural resource base upon which world food production depends. Greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture grew 1.6 percent per year during the decade after the year 2000, new FAO data presented in the yearbook show, with the sector's total annual output in 2010 reaching 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2 eq, a measure used to compare and aggregate different greenhouse gases). This equals 10 percent of all anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. [more]

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17 June 2013 - 19 June 2013
South Africa, Birchwood Or Tambo Hotel
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Kenya, Nairobi
Training of FAO Headquarters and Decentralized forestry Officers in Forests and Climate Change
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