Can a shift to regional and organic diets reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the food system? A case study from Qatar

Table 6 Total emissions and difference in the emissions from comparing conventional and organic production systems in the three scenarios

Food products	Consumption (Kg capita⁻¹ year⁻¹)	Emission intensities of animal products (Kg CO₂ Kg product⁻¹)		Emission intensities of plant-based products (Kg CO₂ Kg product⁻¹)		Scenario 1 (KgCO₂-eq capita⁻¹ year⁻¹)	Scenario 2 (KgCO₂-eq capita⁻¹ year⁻¹)	Scenario 3 (KgCO₂-eq capita⁻¹ year⁻¹)
Food products	Consumption (Kg capita⁻¹ year⁻¹)	Conventional	Organic	Conventional	Organic	100% conventional	100% organic	50% conv. 50% org
Eggs	11.69	5.58	7.05			65.25	82.44	73.84
Poultry meat	43.41	4.6	6.7			199.67	290.82	245.24
Pork meat
Farmed fish	16.05	1.77	0.87			28.43	14.01	21.22
Milk and dairy products	90.61	1.06	1.06			95.90	96.04	95.97
Beef cattle	8.39	13.43	12.28			112.65	102.98	107.81
Sheep and goat meat	13.50	17.5	10.1			236.24	136.35	186.29
Total emissions of animal products						738.13	722.63	730.38
Difference in the emissions						15.49	0	7.75
Cereals	109.62			0.42	0.05345	45.53	5.86	25.69
Vegetables	160.27			0.13	0.00140	20.10	0.23	10.16
Fruits	43.45			0.64	0.02661	27.88	1.16	14.52
Dates	14.56			0.21	0.09132	3.04	1.33	2.18
Total emissions of plant-based products						96.54	8.57	52.55
Difference in the emissions						87.97	0	43.98
Total emissions (plant-based + animal products)						834.66	731.21	782.93
Total difference in the emissions (plant-based + animal products)						103.46	0	51.73

Separated results for animal and plant-based products in the three scenarios are shown. Please, note that the Scenario 1 is the business-as-usual (BAU) scenario and that the 100% organic (scenario 2) is the baseline for the calculation of the difference in the emissions
Values in italic show differences in the emissions

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