AsDB Asian Development Bank
BMI body mass index
BMR basal metabolic rate
CAP Common Agricultural Policy (EC)
CCP Committee on Commodity Problems (FAO)
CFS Committee on World Food Security
CGAP Consultative Group to Assist the Poor
CGIAR Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
CILSS Interstate Committee for Combating Drought in the Sahel
CIMMYT International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center
CIS Commonwealth of Independent States
CSD Commission on Sustainable Development (UN)
DAC Development Assistance Committee
DES dietary energy supply
ECLA Economic Commission for Latin America (superseded by ECLAC)
ECLAC Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
ECOSOC Economic and Social Council (UN)
EEZ Exclusive Economic Zone
EGS Employment Generation Scheme (India)
EHDAEs economies highly dependent on agricultural exports
EU European Union
FAC Food Aid Convention
FDI foreign direct investment
GATT General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GDP gross domestic product
GIEWS Global Information and Early Warning System
GNP gross national product
HFA household food adequacy
HFS household food security
IARC international agricultural research centre
IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
ICA International Coffee Agreement
ICCO International Cocoa Organization
ICRISAT International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics
IDA International Development Association
IDA iron deficiency anaemia
IDD iodine deficiency disease
IDP internally displaced person
IFA individual food adequacy
IFAD International Fund for Agricultural Development
IFF Intergovernmental Forum on Forests
IFPRI International Food Policy Research Institute
IFS individual food security
ILO International Labour Organisation
IMF International Monetary Fund
IPF Intergovernmental Panel on Forests
IPR intellectual property right
IRR internal rate of return
IRRI International Rice Research Institute
ISA International Sugar Agreement
LIFDC low-income food-deficit country
MFO microfinance organization
MSA most seriously affected (country) (UN)
MTNs multilateral trade negotiations
NARS national agricultural research systems
NFS national food security
NGO non-governmental organization
NSSS national staples self-sufficiency
ODA official development assistance
OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
OPEC Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries
PDA Population and Community Development Association (Thailand)
PDI Population and Development International (Thailand)
PEM protein-energy malnutrition
PFP partial factor productivity
ROSCA rotating savings and credit association
SACCO savings and credit cooperative
SAP structural adjustment programme
TNS Technoserve (Ghana)
UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
UNCLOS United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea
UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNDP United Nations Development Programme
UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund
UNEP United Nations Environment Programme
UNRISD United Nations Research Institute for Social Development
VAD vitamin A deficiency
WCARRD World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development
WFP World Food Programme
WHO World Health Organization
WTO World Trade Organization
