Agricultural production and greenhouse gas emissions from world regions-The major trends over 40 years

Acknowledgements: We thank Dr. Tamara Ben-Ari and Dr. Jean-Francois Soussana, from INRA in France, for their valuable contributions to the early development stage of this project. We also owe great thanks to Prof. Ib Skovgaard, University of Copenhagen, for giving essential assistance in developing the methods for decomposing emission changes. We also thank the Centre for Regional Change in the Earth System (CRES, www.cres-centre.dk), and the University of Copenhagen for funding the work.