Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems

Schierhorn, Florian et al. Article — Published Version Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post- Soviet food systems Environmental Research Letters Provided in Cooperation with: Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle (Saale) Suggested Citation: Schierhorn, Florian et al. (2019) : Large greenhouse gas savings due to changes in the post-Soviet food systems, Environmental Research Letters, ISSN 1748-9326, IOP Publishing, Bristol, Vol. 14, Iss. 6, pp. 1-12, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ab1cf1 This Version is available at: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/199010 Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen: Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden. Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen. Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may be saved and copied for your personal and scholarly purposes. You are not to copy documents for public or commercial purposes, to exhibit the documents publicly, to make them publicly available on the internet, or to distribute or otherwise use the documents in public. If the documents have been made available under an Open Content Licence (especially Creative Commons Licences), you may exercise further usage rights as specified in the indicated licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 23 Supplementary information 610 611 612 Fig. S1. Relationship between mean carbon sequestration rate and years after cropland abandonment in 613 Russia. Source: Own calculation; To estimate SOC dynamics on abandoned croplands in the FSU, we 614 used estimates of SOC sequestration rates from field experiments (unit: t C/ha/year) that are available 615 for various soil types in the FSU (Kurganova et al., 2014; Kurganova et al., 2015). 616 617 618 Fig. S2. Relationship between mean carbon sequestration rate and years after cropland abandonment in 619 Kazakhstan. Source: Own calculation; To estimate SOC dynamics on abandoned croplands in the FSU, 620 we used estimates of SOC sequestration rates from field experiments (unit: t C/ha/year) that are available 621 for various soil types in the FSU (Kurganova et al., 2014; Kurganova et al., 2015). 622 623 24 624 Fig. S3. Sowing area (million hectares, Mha) in Russia, Kazakhstan, and rest of the former Soviet Union 625 (FSU; Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, 626 Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan). Percent and absolute change between 1990 and 627 2014 on the right. All data sources are listed at the end of the SI. 628 629 25 630 Fig. S4. Per capita consumption of livestock products in the Soviet Union (SU), former Soviet Union 631 (FSU), Europe, and globally. Dashed vertical lines mark the beginning of the FSU in 1992. Data source: 632 FAOSTAT. 633 634 635 636 26 637 Fig. S5. Emission intensity (kg CO2e/kg) of meat and milk produced in the FSU. The upper figure shows 638 emission intensities of milk, pork, chicken; the lower figure for beef. Lines represent the estimated 639 annual emission intensities, as explained in the Methods section. Source: Own calculation. 640 641 Fig. S6. Contribution of different processes to total GHG emissions embodied in livestock production 642 in the FSU. Source: Own calculation. 643 644 645 646 27 647 Fig. S7. Contribution of different processes to total GHG emissions embodied in the production of 648 different livestock products in the FSU. Note the different y-axis scales. Source: Own calculation. 649 650 28 651 Fig. S 8. Per-capita GHG emissions embodied in domestic livestock consumption and imports of 652 livestock products to the FSU. Note: Emissions from consumption include emissions from imports. 653 Colored shades represent the 95% uncertainty intervals. 654 655 29 656 Fig. S 9. Population change in the SU and FSU (% change since 1992). Data source: FAOSTAT. 657 658 Fig. S10. GHG emissions embodied in consumption, imports, and exports of crops by the FSU. Source: 659 Own calculation. 660 661 30 662 Fig. S11. GHG emissions embodied in consumption of the most important crops in the FSU. Source: 663 Own calculation. 664 665 Fig. S12. GHG emissions embodied in crop exports from and imports to the FSU. Source: own 666 calculation. 667 668