FAO Urges Early Action on Climate Change Responses

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has submitted a program to the United Nations working group on climate change mitigation that will put agriculture as a part of the solutions to mitigate climate change. The strategy Towards a Work Programme on Agriculture calls for early action to help reduce and remove greenhouse gases (GHGs) from the atmosphere and to develop farming systems that is resilient to warmer and more erratic weather conditions.

FAO highlighted the need to work on activities that could examine scientific, methodological and technical issues to ensure implementation of programs and action support for agricultural mitigation and adaptation. FAO emphasized that clarification of these issues are needed so that  smallholder farmers could evaluate and access sources of financing for farming options that could benefit adaption, food security and development.

"It is crucial that farmers in developing countries are helped to mitigate and adapt to climate change," said Alexander Müller, FAO Assistant Director-General in charge of the Natural Resources and Environment Department. "At stake is their ability to produce the food for a world population grown to more than nine billion in 2050 while also helping to prevent possibly catastrophic climate scenarios."

See the news release at the FAO website http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/42788/icode/