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Martial BernouxClimate and Environment Division

Agriculture and the climate change agenda:

Setting the scene

Biwako-hall Otsu-City, Shiga Prefecture, Japan

From 1992 to 2007… 15 years of “very few-progress”

too complex and contradictory messages from science…

despite the main objective of the UNFCCC which state

“to ensure that food production is not threatened “

Agriculture and the climate change agenda

2020

Food Security is back in the forefront of international agendaFood Security is back in the forefront of international agenda

2008, 2015 & 2017: 3 major turning points: Food price crisis, Paris Agreement and the Koronivia Decision

We must find the right directionWe need to connect the dots!

Food Security is back in the forefront of international agendaFood Security is back in the forefront of international agenda

We must find the right directionWe need to connect the dots!

Photo ©gmeducation.org

Food Security is back in the forefront of international agendaFood Security is back in the forefront of international agenda

Photo ©gmeducation.org

Food Security is back in the forefront of international agendaFood Security is back in the forefront of international agenda

a holistic approach, maximizing synergies and minimizing

trade-offs, for all agricultural sectors, and their correlation with

food security and other human needs, would improve the

effectiveness of actions undertaken to manage climate change by addressing intrinsically linked challenges as one

We need to identify and implement the no-regret options: farmers,

forest dwellers, herders and fishers arethe most affected by climate

change because of their limited capacity to adapt to its impacts.

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