Our World in Data - Environmental Impacts of Food Production Research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems https://ourworldindata.org/ 2026-04-20T00:00:00.000Z Most people care about farm animals — our food system doesn't reflect that https://ourworldindata.org/most-people-care-about-farm-animals-our-food-system-doesnt-reflect-that 2026-04-20T00:00:00.000Z Pablo Rosado
]]> Most food is transported by boat, so food miles are a relatively small part of the carbon footprint of most diets https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/most-food-is-transported-by-boat-so-food-miles-are-a-relatively-small-part-of-the-carbon-footprint-of-most-diets 2025-04-28T04:00:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> Most carbon emissions from food miles are produced by trucks on the road https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/most-carbon-emissions-from-food-miles-are-produced-by-trucks-on-the-road 2024-11-18T04:00:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> What are the trade-offs between animal welfare and the environmental impact of meat? https://ourworldindata.org/what-are-the-trade-offs-between-animal-welfare-and-the-environmental-impact-of-meat 2024-06-10T08:36:43.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> How effective are policies in reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture? https://ourworldindata.org/effective-policies-reducing-environmental-impacts-agriculture 2024-04-22T14:25:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> Environmental Impacts of Food Production https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food 2022-12-02T15:52:13.000Z Hannah RitchiePablo RosadoMax Roser
]]> What share of people say they are vegetarian, vegan, or flexitarian? https://ourworldindata.org/vegetarian-vegan 2022-05-13T09:00:00.000Z Edouard MathieuHannah Ritchie
]]> FAQs on the environmental impacts of food https://ourworldindata.org/faqs-environmental-impacts-food 2022-02-07T15:29:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> Dairy vs. plant-based milk: what are the environmental impacts? https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impact-milks 2022-01-19T08:10:35.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> Emissions from food alone could use up all of our budget for 1.5°C or 2°C – but we have a range of opportunities to avoid this https://ourworldindata.org/food-emissions-carbon-budget 2021-06-10T10:00:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> What are the carbon opportunity costs of our food? https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-opportunity-costs-food 2021-03-19T11:00:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> How much of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food? https://ourworldindata.org/greenhouse-gas-emissions-food 2021-03-18T12:00:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> How do the carbon footprints of foods compare? Our article as a video. https://ourworldindata.org/vox-carbon-footprint 2020-05-14T09:47:53.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> Food waste is responsible for 6% of global greenhouse gas emissions https://ourworldindata.org/food-waste-emissions 2020-03-18T10:00:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> The carbon footprint of foods: are differences explained by the impacts of methane? https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-footprint-food-methane 2020-03-10T11:27:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> Very little of global food is transported by air; this greatly reduces the climate benefits of eating local https://ourworldindata.org/food-transport-by-mode 2020-01-28T09:30:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> Half of the world’s habitable land is used for agriculture https://ourworldindata.org/global-land-for-agriculture 2019-11-11T09:00:00.000Z Hannah RitchieMax Roser
]]> Food production is responsible for one-quarter of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions https://ourworldindata.org/food-ghg-emissions 2019-11-06T17:00:00.000Z Hannah Ritchie
]]> What are the environmental impacts of food and agriculture? https://ourworldindata.org/env-impacts-of-food 2019-11-04T11:00:05.000Z Hannah Ritchie
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