| ACFR | Advisory Committee on Fishery Research |
| CBFM | Community-based Fisheries Management |
| COFI | Committee on Fisheries |
| CSR | Corporate Social Responsibility |
| DAC | Development Action Committee (of OECD) |
| EEZ | Exclusive Economic Zone |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FS | Food Security |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GSP | Generalized System of Preferences |
| IUU | Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (Fishing) |
| LIFDC | Low Income Food Deficit Country |
| MCS | Monitoring, Control and Surveillance |
| NGO | Non-Governmental Organization |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PP | Poverty Prevention |
| PR | Poverty Reduction |
| PRA | Participatory Rural Appraisal |
| PRSP | Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers |
| Poverty Reduction Strategy Plans | |
| SID | Society for International Development |
| SOFI | State of Food Insecurity in the World |
| SPS | Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures |
| TBT | Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade |
| UNCED | United Nations Conference on Environment and Development |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| WSSD | World Summit on Sustainable Development |
| WTO | World Trade Organization |
