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Many of the world’s poorest people are rural women in developing countries who depend on
subsistence agriculture to feed their families.
Add: migration, refugees
3. Adaptation to climate change
Title: Responses to climate change
Starting by stating the need to stop dangerous climate change, integrating food security and
agriculture into UNFCCC process, in order not to jeopardize food security further.
Transformation of work food systems into climate smart recognizing the need to attain the
multiple goals of food security, adaptation and mitigation. In agriculture it is difficult and mostly
not meaningful to separate adaptation and mitigation since most of the climate smart farming
practices have synergies between these two while increasing productivity. After this type of
introduction one could discuss as below specific aspects of adaptation and mitigation.
a – Observed adaptation for food security and nutrition
Developing and assessing the adaptation responses
You have only agronomic responses here what about livelihood strategy responses including
diversification of income sources, labour migration, remittances
5. Recommendations for policies and actions
How to design and implement good overall development policies and programs? Linking policy on
climate change and food security, and taking an integrated response to addressing food and
nutrition security, agricultural productivity and climate change.
Here one should talk about multiple goals and integration of policies, intagraion of climate issues
into sectoral polices like agriculture but also complementary financing mechanisms for reaching
multiple objectives
Marja-Liisa Tapio-Bistrom
Senior officer
Climate, Energy and Tenure division
Natural Resources Management and Environment Department
FAO
40. Marielle Dubbeling from the RUAF Foundation, the Netherlands
The proposed study seems to focus on rural food security and nutrition. Though not denying
their importance, it is underestimating urban food insecurity. Most of the population will live in
cities by 2050. In many African, Latin American and Asian cities already a third to half the
population live in informal or illegal settlements lacking adequate provision for water,
sanitation, drainage, health care, schools….. and with their nutritional status compromised
because such a high proportion of their income goes to paying rent, water vendors/kiosks, pay
toilets (as they have no toilets in their home), keeping children at school (often having to send
their children to cheap private schools because they cannot get them into government schools),
private health care (cannot get public health care…) transport (especially for those that live in
peripheral locations) (personal comment David David Satterthwaite- IIED).
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