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3. adaptation to climate change
I agree with the CCAFS comments regarding looking at adaptation in finer detail. There are
urgent adaptation needs to current climatic risks that should be prioritized. As well, work
towards adaptation of farming systems for future climates of 10-20 years from now must begin
now, and I agree with the emphasis in this context on farmer-led crop breeding.
The adaptation options considered should mirror and prioritize the vulnerable regions and
populations identified in the previous section.
Successful, people-centered, cross-cutting models of adaptation, such as the MERET program in
Ethiopia, should be reviewed and highlighted. Agroecological models in particular provide
numerous adaptation benefits and should be prominently considered.
Adaption responses must integrate meteorological information. The Global Framework for
Climate Services promises to coordinate generation and distribution of climate information
globally, including early warning information relating to seasonal precipitation availability, but a
key challenge is to make such information available at regional, national, and most importantly
at local levels for access by pastoralists and small-holder and subsistence agriculturalists.
Knowledge gaps and coordination and information distribution gaps should be identified.
4. climate change mitigation
Given the severity of current and future food security threats posed by climate change,
agricultural mitigation strategies should be a much lower priority for review by the HLPE than
adaptation strategies and options. Numerous other bodies are conducting work on mitigation,
not least the IPCC and the UNFCCC, but also the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural
Greenhouse Gases. The FAO CFS should focus its attention on food security, vulnerable
populations and adaptation.
5. recommendations for policies and actions
Actions need to be prioritized. There are very significant imminent climate change threats to
food and nutrition security, particularly in exceptionally vulnerable regions such as sub-Saharan
Africa.
Regards,
Doreen Stabinsky
Professor, Global Environmental Politics
College of the Atlantic
Bar Harbor, ME USA
60. Gerhard Flachowsky, Institute of Animal Nutrition, Germany
Dear Moderators,
I would like to add some comments/remarks to contribute to sustainable FOOD SECURITY, also
under consideration of expected CLIMATE CHANGES and to ask one question.
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