Nitrous oxide
For food production, methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O) are two other greenhouse gases with often much larger impact on climate change and global warming. or food producers the emissions of methane primarily originate from the digestive systems of ruminants, manure management and rice production. The different gases react differently. So whereas Methane is a short-lived but very, Nitrous oxide is both a strong and long-lived greenhouse gas. Nitrous oxide is emitted from cropland that is fertilized and a small proportion of the nitrogen that is applied to fields is converted into nitrous oxide. Nitrous oxide emissions also come from manure handling and when synthetic fertilizers are produced.