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From CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security: Farmers and agriculture experts began COP17 pushing for negotiators to recognize the important role of agriculture in the climate change discussion, and specifically called for a Work Programme for agriculture under the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA). While no such program was established, there were some victories for food and farming in Durban.
Ahead of the Rio gathering, scientists are calling for an improved commitment to deliver nutrition security and lessen the need to aid. "One reason why it is necessary to push attention on to agriculture in Rio is because negotiations are going really slowly," explained CGIAR spokesman Bruce Campbell. "We thought it was really important to put the focus on agriculture in Rio, and the 15 research organisations have come together in order to form a consortium and speak with one voice for the first time." 
Photo: N.Palmer (CIAT). 今年三月，國際組織「永續農業與氣候變遷委員會」（Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change）發表報告，點出七個步驟，打造永續農業，減少環境破壞、資源浪費，又能解除糧荒。 
“That’s the thing about climate change; it makes weather more extreme,” said Gerald Nelson, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, a Washington-based think tank. 
Photo: P Casier (CGIAR). "Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well-being and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems are poised to accelerate," said John Beddington, Britain's chief science adviser, in a March report by the International Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. 
Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT). “Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well-being and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems are poised to accelerate,” said John Beddington, Britain’s chief science adviser, in a March report by the International Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. 
Photo: P. Casier (CGIAR). Among those watching and fostering the spread of agricultural use of mobile phones in southern Asia and Africa is the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Recently, Sonja Vermeulen, CCAFS Head of Research, spoke with Farm Press on the developing world’s rapid adoption of technology, how it is being used by farmers and the need for education and infrastructure development. 
A recent report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change proposes a thoughtful multi-pronged strategy to increase food production, including enhancing populations' resilience to climate change and raising investment in sustainable farming. 
"We have a billion people on the planet who are food insecure and a billion who are suffering from over-nutrition. We have possibly as many as a couple of billion more who are malnourished," as rightly said by Molly Jahn, a member of the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change and an agronomist at the University of Wisconsin at Madison. 
“Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well-being and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems are poised to accelerate,” said John Beddington, Britain’s chief science adviser, in a March report by the International Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. 
"Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well-being and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems are poised to accelerate," said John Beddington, Britain's chief science adviser, in a March report by the International Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. 
“Agriculture and food production are mentioned in the UNFCC [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] but they have not been translated into language that will initiate a specific work program on agriculture in relation to climate change,” says Bruce Campbell at the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR). 
“Warmer conditions and longer dry seasons linked to climate change could prove to be the perfect catalyst for outbreaks of pests and diseases. They are already formidable enemies affecting food crops,” said Pramod K. Aggarwal, regional program leader for Asia at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT). "Climate change endangers crop and livestock yields and the health of fisheries and forests at the very same time that surging populations worldwide are placing new demands on food production," said Bruce Campbell of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (originally the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research).
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Opinion piece by Dr. Bruce Campbell, Chair of Agriculture and Rural Development Day and Director of the CGIAR Research Programme on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), based at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. 
"Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well-being and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems are poised to accelerate," said John Beddington, Britain's chief science adviser, in a March report by the International Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. 
According to Dr. James Kinyangi, a climate change expert at Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS) and the East African Regional Program Leader, even a-two degree Celsius rise in global mean temperatures by 2100, which is an optimistic scenario, will radically change the face of farming. 
Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT). Among those watching and fostering the spread of agricultural use of mobile phones in southern Asia and Africa is the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). Recently, Sonja Vermeulen CCAFS Head of Research, spoke with Farm Press on the developing world’s rapid adoption of technology, how it is being used by farmers and the need for education and infrastructure development. 
The Climate Smart Agriculture Learning Platform for South Asia was launched last month (23 April) by the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
In addition to on-the-ground solutions, those changes will need to include major policy shifts — including potentially a ban on turning grain into biofuel or limits on food speculation. “Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well-being and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems are poised to accelerate,” said John Beddington, Britain’s chief science adviser, in a March report by the International Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. 
A recent report from the Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change proposes a thoughtful multi-pronged strategy to increase food production, including enhancing populations’ resilience to climate change and raising investment in sustainable farming. 
“Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well-being and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems are poised to accelerate,” said John Beddington, Britain’s chief science adviser, in a March report by the International Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. 
“Food insecurity and climate change are already inhibiting human well-being and economic growth throughout the world, and these problems are poised to accelerate,” said John Beddington, Britain’s chief science adviser, in a March report by the International Commission on Sustainable Agriculture and Climate Change. 
Photo: P Casier (CGIAR). Following the massive flooding last year, leading scientists are taking a more serious look at how to put excessive flood water into the soil as one of the solutions to help solve future flooding in Thailand and some other Southeast Asian countries. Pumping water back into the soil is possible and could be an alternative to large dam constructions and water retention development, according to Matthew McCartney of the Vientiane-based International Water Management Institute (IWMI). 
Photo: N. Palmer (CIAT). "Climate change endangers crop and livestock yields and the health of fisheries and forests at the very same time that surging populations worldwide are placing new demands on food production," said Bruce Campbell of the CGIAR research program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS). 
“Redirecting floodwaters into large groundwater aquifers could diminish the magnitude of destructive floods while increasing the ability of Thailand and other countries to maintain or even boost crop production in the face of increasing climate uncertainty,” according to an IWMI statement. |
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