Rice cultivation and climate change

Other than methane, rice cultivation contributes to the emission of  nitrous oxide, another greenhouse gas.
Since rice is a major staple for at least half the world's seven billion people, the way it is managed has significant effects on the Earth's warming climate, said the report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a peer-reviewed US journal.
 

Currently, the amount of unaccounted-for N2O global emissions from rice may be as high as the annual climate pollution from about 200 coal power plants, according to the authors. In India alone, where the study took place across five intermittently flooded rice fields, nitrous oxide emissions "could be 30-45 times higher than reported under continuous flooding," researchers estimated.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/greenhouse-gases-from-rice-paddies-may-be-2x-higher-than-thought-10703878


Rice cultivation affects climate change and climate change affects rice cultivation. 

Look at how climate change affects production of rice.


https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/climate-change-pushing-the-world-into-hunger


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