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Submission to the UNFCCC Secretariat on issues identified in decision 1/CP. 16, paragraph 72 and appendix II, in answer to the invitation of paragraph 5 of draft conclusions UNFCCC/SBSTA/2011/L.25 The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) herein submits its views on issues identified in decision 1/CP.16, paragraph 72 and appendix II, in particular on how to address drivers of deforestation and forest degradation and on robust and transparent national forest monitoring systems as referred to in its paragraph 71(c).
Submission by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) on issues related to agriculture, as outlined in paragraph 69 and 70 of the Outcome of the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Long-term Cooperative Action under the Convention. Agriculture is essential to food security and it is particularly vulnerable to climate change. Since its inception, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change reflected the fear that climate change might disrupt food production. The ultimate goal of the Convention calls for a stabilization of GHGs within a time frame that is “to ensure that food production is not threatened”. We now know that food production is and will be threatened.
Youth and United Nations Global Alliance (YUNGA). Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Submission for the review of the amended New Delhi work programme on Article 6: Education, Training and Public Awareness. The following submission has been made in response to the Secretariats invitation to parties, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations for their views on possible elements of a successor New Delhi work programme on Article 6 of the Convention (education, training, public awareness). By including Article 6 in the UNFCCC nations have identified the importance of education, training and public awareness in achieving the goals of the convention. Education, training and public awareness are the most cost effective and socially empowering means to provoke actions for mitigating climate change as well as achieving adaptation efforts. It is therefore timely to revise and strengthen the commitment to Article 6. In particular it is suggested that the successor programme provides more efforts into mechanisms to engage children and young people, support activities related to agriculture and consumption and support access to knowledge and understanding on effective methodologies and techniques to create behavioural changes.
Food security is likely to be affected by climate change (CC) in several ways: food security depends not only on the direct impact of CC on food production, but also on its indirect impacts on human development, economic growth, trade flows, and food aid policy (Keane et al., 2009). The extent of such impact is however very uncertain, especially in regions where climate projections are ambivalent, such as in the Sahel zone in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In our study we assess: how projections for key food security indicators – such as agriculture production and rural poverty – are affected by the uncertainty in climate change; and how investment in adaptation measures can help dealing with such uncertainty.
