Alexander MUELLER, Assistant Director General, FAO Website: http://www.fao.org/climatechange/en/ © FAO: http://www.fao.org

1. Food Security and Climate Change:
Committee on World Food
Security (CFS)
Policy Recommendations
Alexander MUELLER,
Assistant Director General, FAO
FAO Knowledge Day
Climate-Smart Approaches to Agriculture
Doha 1st December 2012

2. New CFS
The vision of the reformed CFS is to
be the most inclusive international
and intergovernmental platform for
all stakeholders to work together to
ensure food security and nutrition
for all.

3. Members of CFS:
• More than 130 Governments
• Civil society
• Private sector
• Research
• UN agencies
• Development Banks

4. CFS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS I
1. Climate change can pose serious threats to
food security especially to small scale food
producers’ lives and livelihoods, and to the
realization of the right to food, and urges action.

5. CFS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS I
1. Climate change can pose serious threats to
food security especially to small scale food
producers’ lives and livelihoods, and to the
realization of the right to food, and urges action.
2. Adaptation to climate change is a major
concern and objective for all farmers and food
producers, especially small-scale producers.

6. CFS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS II
3. CFS therefore invites Member States, IOs and other
CFS stakeholders, as appropriate, and recognizing the
role of the UNFCCC:

7. CFS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS II
3. CFS therefore invites Member States, IOs and other
CFS stakeholders, as appropriate, and recognizing the
role of the UNFCCC:
•to integrate climate change concerns in food security
policies and programmes and to increase resilience of
vulnerable groups and food systems.

8. CFS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS II
3. CFS therefore invites Member States, IOs and other
CFS stakeholders, as appropriate, and recognizing the
role of the UNFCCC:
•to integrate climate change concerns in food security
policies and programmes and to increase resilience of
vulnerable groups and food systems.
•to create conditions to facilitate access to genetic
resources for food and agriculture and the fair and
equitable sharing of the benefits arising from their use.

9. CFS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS II
3. CFS therefore invites Member States, IOs and other
CFS stakeholders, as appropriate, and recognizing the
role of the UNFCCC:
•to integrate climate change concerns in food security
policies and programmes and to increase resilience of
vulnerable groups and food systems.
•to create conditions to facilitate access to genetic
resources for food and agriculture and the fair and
equitable sharing of the benefits arising from their use.
•to develop agricultural strategies that take into account
the need to respond to climate change and to safeguard
food security;

10. CFS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS III
• CFS supports the consideration of food security
within the UNFCCC activities, in accordance
with its mandate and in the context of its the
objectives, principles and provisions, by:

11. CFS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS III
• CFS supports the consideration of food security
within the UNFCCC activities, in accordance
with its mandate and in the context of its the
objectives, principles and provisions, by:
• inviting FAO to continue collaboration with the
UNFCCC Secretariat

12. CFS POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS III
• CFS supports the consideration of food security
within the UNFCCC activities, in accordance
with its mandate and in the context of its the
objectives, principles and provisions, by:
• inviting FAO to continue collaboration with the
UNFCCC Secretariat
• inviting the CFS Secretariat to transmit for
information the HLPE report on Food Security
and Climate Change and the present document
of the CFS to the UNFCCC Secretariat.

13. Link with UNFCCC
• Support the consideration of FS within
UNFCCC activities, in accordance with its
mandate, in the context of objectives,
principles and provisions of the convention
• Invites FAO to continue collaboration with
UNFCCC, including through technical
information on FS issues
• Transmit for information HLPE report and
CFS decisions to UNFCCC secretariat

14. Role of FAO
FAO offers continued support to
• the Parties
• and the UNFCCC secretariat
in addressing climate change issues
through assistance on technical matters as
well as helping countries to share
knowledge and experience, especially on
aspects related to adaptation and food
security.

15. Report of CFS available at:
www.fao.org/cfs