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Agriculture. UNCTAD/OSG/DP/2011/1 --Specific assessment of key crops and agricultural products: analyze how to promote substitutions for the most at-risk crops, such as wheat, and how to promote increased production of the most tolerant and adaptive crops that increase food security and lower costs, especially for marginalized populations. Thank you again for the opportunity to offer comments. Please let me know if I may provide anything else. Best regards, Gabrielle Kissinger 3. Thinlay Baap from the Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture Bhutan 1) Do you think the scope is appropriate? Yes, provided data are available to link food insecurity and agricultural productivity with climate change variables in developing countries. It would also depend on whether governments in developing countries are willing to cooperate to conduct such studies or provide necessary information. 2) Have important elements been omitted or should any of the elements outlined be left out? Most elements are covered, but the problem I see is connecting those elements to arrive at conclusion. For instance, food insecurity or poor nutrition in many countries is not directly related to climate change parameters but to poorly managed institution or bad governance systems. Although the relationship between agricultural productivity and climate variables are well studied under controlled conditions, but extrapolating finding from small scale experiments to larger areas or production system runs into risks of many unknown responses. 3) In your opinion, what would be the main aspects that the report should emphasise? It should emphasis whether vulnerable countries are adequately equipped to deal with unexpected climate change effects; If not then what and how rich countries or UN systems (e.g. FAO) could help developing poor countries. 4. Emily Ojoo-Massawa from UNEP, Kenya Dear Moderator, I find the scope appropriate. I do however believe there should be a portion that deals with the impacts of the other environmental contaminants on the nutritive value of the foods. Sincerely, Emily Ojoo-Massawa __________________________________ Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition http://km.fao.org/fsn 8
5. Suman K A from Change Planet Partners, India Dear Moderator Thank you for this important and timely post. Sections 1 through 3a seem appropriate for the presented scope of study. Further the scope needs an appropriate framework for the CC - FSN research problem(s), options/solutions/recommendations , cross-cutting themes characterization... What this implies is that food and nutrition security, climate change - two distinct problems need to be deconstructed with their critical and then an appropriate global, local multi criteria decision framework applied to arrive at policy/action recommendations. More importantly, the climate change and its impacts on crop yields, food trade , food supply chains, nutrition security need closer attention in the study scope. Cross cutting themes such as gender, health, sanitation, agriculture infrastructure investments et.al , while being valid, take the attention away from the core problem and can potentially lead to different set of options and at different scales. In my view, the scope must delineate such boundary themes to keep the focus on CC-FSN issues at stake. I do hope the inputs prove useful. Best regards Suman K A., Founder, Change Planet Partners India 6. Étienne Benoist from France Dear Sir or Madam, Linking food security/nutrition with climate change (CC) is a very constructive and smart approach As we know, CC is affecting and will most likely continue to affect our ecosystems And food directly comes from those natural ecosystems and depend on their equilibrium So we understand very easily that any brutal change in those equilibrium due to increasing climate instability will affect the country's food sources, food security and thus their population's diets The need for adaptation to those future changes is pressing and any future food policies should take these adaptation challenges into account. Adapting to CC is good but adapting and mitigating at the same time is even better. One solution exists to tackle nutrition issues while providing powerful CC mitigation and adaption tools: it lies in the drastic downsizing of livestock and replacing its byproducts by better alternatives. This is based on a 2009 comprehensive study by the Worldwatch Institute: http://www.worldwatch.org/node/6294 This study enriched the 2006 FAO report "Livestock's long shadow" and shows that livestock is responsible for half of greenhouse gas emissions. __________________________________ Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition http://km.fao.org/fsn 9
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