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Recipe for a Livable Planet is the first comprehensive global roadmap for mitigating the agrifood system¡¯s contributions to climate change. It shows how the agriculture system that produces the world¡¯s food can cut greenhouse gas emissions while continuing to feed the world.

• Agrifood is a bigger contributor to climate change than many think. It generates almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, averaging around 16 gigatons annually. This is about one-sixth more than all of the world¡¯s heat and electricity emissions.
• The agrifood system is a huge, untapped source of low-cost climate change action. Unlike other sectors, it can have an outsized impact on climate change by drawing carbon from the atmosphere through ecosystems and soils.
• The payoffs for investing in cutting agrifood emissions are estimated to be much bigger than the costs. Annual investments will need to increase by 18 times to $260 billion a year to halve current agrifood emissions by 2030 and put the world on-track for net-zero emissions by 2050. Previous estimates show that the benefits in health, economic, and environmental terms could be as much as $4.3 trillion in 2030, a 16 to 1 return on investment costs.
• Every country can harness priority opportunities to achieve net zero agrifood emissions while advancing development. Different countries have different pathways for doing so.
  • High-income countries can do more to promote renewable energy in the agrifood sector and shift to more sustainable diets. With their resources, high-income countries can provide more support to low- and middle-income countries adopt low-emission agrifood practices.
  • Middle-income countries are where three quarters of existing opportunities to reduce emissions in a cost-effective way. These countries can reduce emissions from livestock and rice, invest in healthy soils, and by cutting food loss and waste.
  • Low-income countries should focus on green growth. Over half of the agrifood emissions in low-income countries come from converting forests to croplands or pastures. Preserving and restoring forests can be a cost-effective way to reduce emissions and promote sustainable economic development.
• Actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the agrifood system will also have three key benefits: they will make food supplies more secure, help our food system better withstand climate change, and ensure that vulnerable people are not harmed by this transition.