Climate change and food security: risks and responses

Parties to the Nauru Agreement
PP
Pratique Paysanne (farmers’ traditional practices)
RCP
representative concentration pathways 
RPP
Regional Programming Paper
SFDRR 
Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction
SPS
Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
SRES 
Special Report on Emission Scenarios
SSA 
Africa south of the Sahara
SSC 
South-South Cooperation
UNDP 
United Nations Development Programme
UNFCCC 
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
VDS 
vessel day scheme
WFO 
Word Farmers’ Organisation
WFP 
World Food Programme
WTO 
World Trade Organization

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Acknowledgments 
The preparation of this publication has been a collaborative effort involving professionals 
from within several departments of FAO, under the coordination of Vincent Gitz, Alexandre 
Meybeck, Leslie Lipper, Cassandra De Young and Susan Braatz, and with contributions from 
Philippe Ankers, Aslihan Arslan, Nadine Azzu, Stephan Baas, Caterina Batello, Julie Belanger, 
Agnes Bernis-Fonteneau, Shakeel Bhatti, Sarah Brunel, Sally Bunning, Andrea Cattaneo, 
Romina Cavatassi, Mona Chaya, Remi Cluset, Keith Cressman, Toufic El-Asmar, Aziz Elbehri, 
Jean-Marc Faures, Irene Hoffmann, Hideki Kanamaru, Rodica Leahu, Dan Leskien, Damiano 
Luchetti, Chikelu Mba, Annie Monard, Stefano Mondovi, Anne Mottet, William Murray, 
Nicolas Picard, Eran Raizman, Natalia Winder Rossi, Federico Spano, Henning Steinfield, 
Alvaro Toledo and Julia Wolf. 
Suzanne Redfern provided editorial support for the text and tables, and design; Fabio Ricci 
for the figures. 
The coordinating authors thank the following reviewers for their valuable review and comments 
of a pre-final draft of this publication: Modadugu Vijay Gupta, Sheryl Hendriks, Erda Lin,
Gerald C. Nelson and Shivaji Pandey. Responsibility with the final content will lies with
the authors.

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