section_path: Reducing and recapturing emissions/Agriculture and industry
section_name: Agriculture and industry
paragraph_text: Agriculture and industry
  
  Agriculture and forestry face a triple challenge of limiting greenhouse gas emissions, preventing the further conversion of forests to agricultural land, and meeting increases in world food demand. A set of actions could reduce agriculture and forestry-based emissions by two thirds from 2010 levels. These include reducing growth in demand for food and other agricultural products, increasing land productivity, protecting and restoring forests, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agricultural production.
  
  On the demand side, a key component of reducing emissions is shifting people towards plant-based diets. Eliminating the production of livestock for meat and dairy would eliminate about 3/4ths of all emissions from agriculture and other land use. Livestock also occupy 37% of ice-free land area on Earth and consume feed from the 12% of land area used for crops, driving deforestation and land degradation.
  
  Steel and cement production are responsible for about 13% of industrial CO emissions. In these industries, carbon-intensive materials such as coke and lime play an integral role in the production, so that reducing CO emissions requires research into alternative chemistries.