Methane emissions
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16% of agricultural methane emissions and 1.5% of anthropogenic GHG emissions come from rice paddy production (Sutton, Lotsch & Prasann, 2024).
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Searchinger, T., M. Herrero, X. Yan, J. Wang, P. Dumas, K. Beauchemin, and E. Kebreab. 2021. “Opportunities to Reduce Methane Emissions from Global Agriculture.” Unpublished manuscript. https://searchinger.princeton.edu/publications/opportunities-reducemethane-emissions-fromglobal-agriculture.