The agricultural sector, including farmers and processors, has been urged to reduce nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions to improve health and reduce global emissions.
Experts at the Royal Society are concerned about the large quantities of N2O being emitted into the atmosphere.
Synthetic fertilizers and livestock manure are two of the main causes of these emissions in the agricultural sector, which is responsible for up to 80 per cent of it, according to the UK's national academy of science.
One option discussed by scientists is reducing the world's per-capita meat consumption, although it is thought that improving crop nitrogen use and manure management will have a significantly larger impact.
Dr Eric Davidson, of Woods Hole Research Centre, explained: "Reducing per-capita meat consumption in the developed world will have only a modest effect on atmospheric N2O concentrations because the developing world is already consuming more meat as their populations grow."
He noted that there is a lack of political will to tackle the problem, so farmers lack fundamental incentives to make any change to their current practices.
In January, researchers at the University of Gothenburg called for an introduction of a climate tax applied to meat and milk, claiming that this would help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from European agriculture.
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