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Key messages

• Agriculture, food security and climate change have not been well integrated at the global level beyond UNFCCC negotiations.
• This is changing and climate change negotiations have begun to address agriculture directly and indirectly, with some substantive text proposed.
• However, with many non-papers for discussion, and with little progress in choosing between alternative texts, there is a risk that agriculture may be lost as text is streamlined in Copenhagen.
• Integration of climate change and food security is important, applying the Paris Declaration and Accra Principles of Aid Effectiveness.

• shared vision that recognises agriculture asintegral to food production, food security and to the resilience of ecosystems and that climate change is a major threat.
• a COP decision on a work programme for agriculture on mitigation and its integration with adaptation, including pro-poor perspective.
• co-operative sectoral approaches include measures on mitigation that support food security and adaptation objectives, and benefit the poor.

• NAMAs include explicit mention of agriculture.
• Synergies between NAMAs and NAPAs are recognised in institutional and financing mechanisms.
• REDD includes Agriculture, Forestry and other Land Uses.
• LULUCF comes up with a new accounting rule system that is favourable to agriculture.