FAO key messages on climate change and food security

I want to reiterate the key messages that FAO brought to the Hague conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change in the publication on  ”Climate-Smart Agriculture”: Climate-smart Agriculture sustainably increases productivity, resilience (adaptation), reduces/removes GHGs (mitigation) and enhances achievement of national food security and development goals. 1) Agriculture in developing countries must undergo a [...]

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Feeding the world in a changing climate

How can agriculture be transformed to achieve food security and climate change goals? This is the main question that will be posed during the Global Conference on Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change in The Hague from 31 October to 5 November 2010. Organized by The Netherlands, in close cooperation with Ethiopia, Mexico, New Zealand, [...]

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Towards a work programme on agriculture – FAO submission to Bonn climate talks

On 31 May, another round of climate talks started in Bonn. The two week negotiations are a conglomerate of four different tracks: KP, LCA, SBI and SBSTA. For those not familiar to all ingredients in the acronym soup, there are explanations and more detail here. Beyond the negotiations, a large number of side events are held [...]

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Post-Copenhagen analyses suggest reframing climate policy

Many analysts conclude that COP-15 in Copenhagen was a failure. In my view, there was solid progress in some areas, particularly on REDD+, and also in better recognizing the importance of agriculture. So within the sense of overall mediocre progress, the food security and natural resources management aspects have actually moved forward. The debate on [...]

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What is Deforestation in Chinese?

Climate change talks must avoid misunderstandings. To help communication in different languages, FAO has recently launched a Glossary on Climate Change and Bioenergy. FAO has been working on bioenergy and climate change topics for years. Technical papers and publications dealing with the issues of food security linked to adaptation to the effects of climate change and [...]

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