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Introduction to the topic Food and nutrition insecurity and climate change are, more than ever, the two major global challenges humanity is facing. These challenges are inextricably linked, and so should be the world’s responses. For these reasons, the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested its High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) to conduct a study on climate change to facilitate and inform the policy decision-making of CFS members. In particular the aim of this study is to: “review existing assessments and initiatives on the effects of climate change on food security and nutrition, with a focus on the most affected and vulnerable regions and populations and the interface between climate change and agricultural productivity, including the challenges and opportunities of adaptation and mitigation policies and actions for food security and nutrition.” Final findings are to be presented at the CFS Plenary session in October 2012. The HLPE hereby invites you to provide your views on the proposed scope of the study. This will be used by the StC to finalize the terms of reference of the HLPE Project Team that will prepare the study and policy recommendations. In the scope outlined we identified these main focus areas: Assessing direct and indirect impacts of climate change on food security and nutrition; Identifying vulnerable regions and populations; Adaptation and mitigation options for food security and nutrition; Recommendations for policies and actions. 1. Do you think the scope is appropriate? 2. Have important elements been omitted or should any of the elements outlined be left out? 3. In your opinion, what would be the main aspects that the report should emphasise? Please be as specific as possible We look forward to your kind response. Yours sincerely, On behalf of the Chairperson of the Steering Committee of the HLPE __________________________________ Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition http://km.fao.org/fsn 6
Contributions Received 1. Saima Raza from the United Kingdom Dear Sir/Madam, I am DPhil student in the UK investigating climate migration and International Law. I would suggest the following additions/adaptations: - Utilise the term ‘food sovereignty’ - Indigenous and Tribal populations and food (vulnerable populations) - Agro-ecology - Right to food in times of Conflict and/or Natural disasters - Climate Refugees and effects on food systems - Within the Climate Change context: Drought, Famine and Food Best, S. Raza 2. Gabrielle Kissinger from Lexeme Consulting, Canada Dear UN Committee on World Food Security members, Thank you for the opportunity to offer comments on the proposed scope of the HLPE study on climate change. 1) I would like to alert you to one area that I believe deserves mention, and is currently missing, from Section 4: Climate Change Mitigation. This section should be broadened to include linking agricultural adaptation to mitigation strategies engaged by reducing emissions from deforestation (REDD+). Agriculture is the largest driver of forest clearing globally, and current national-level REDD+ mitigation plans greatly understate the need to fundamentally address agriculture, and to link mitigation plans to future adaptation plans (especially affecting a) WHERE future agricultural production is best suited given climate change impacts, b) productivity of agricultural systems in a changed environment, and c) economic factors that will influence land use decisions. Please find here a paper I authored on this topic, which was published last week during the SBSTA meeting in Bonn as a partnership between the CGIAR Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) research programme and Lexeme Consulting. 2) I would advise broadening "Section 2: Identifying Vulnerable Regions and Populations" to include greater emphasis on direct economic impacts stemming from climate change impacts described in Section 1. This is hinted at in the current sub-section a), but I believe deserves to be separated out as a sub-section of its own, with specific mention of: --Summary of current estimates of economic impacts on agriculture due to climate change: It is anticipated that for developing, non-temperate countries, total net cereal volume will need to increase 45-50% by 2050 relative to the year 2000. On top of that, price increases are expected to increase 20% in the short- to medium-term. Source: Hoffman U. 2011. Assuring Food Security in Developing Countries under the Challenges of Climate Change: Key Trade and Development Issues of a Fundamental Transformation of __________________________________ Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition http://km.fao.org/fsn 7
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