While switching to plant based food is an obvious course of action which would have drastic benefits, several other methods exist by which agricultural emissions. These include:
- Livestock diet changes to reduce methane production
- More accurate fertilizer application to reduce nitrous oxide production
- Draining rice paddies to reduce production of methane by anaerobic microbes
- No till farming to allow more carbon to be stored in the soil
- Farm equipment electrification
- Crops bred for higher yield or lower resource usage
