| A&M | Adaptation and Mitigation |
| AAS | Aquatic Agricultural Systems |
AATF | African Agricultural Technology Foundation |
| ABARES | Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia) |
| ABCIC | The African Biodiversity Conservation and Innovations Centre |
| ACBF | African Capacity Building Foundation |
| ACCRA | Africa Climate Change Resilience Alliance |
| ACIAR | Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research |
| ACMAD | African Center of Meteorological Application for Development |
| ACPC | Africa Climate Policy Centre |
| AECF | The Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund |
| AEDD | Agence de l’Environment et du Developpement Durable |
| AfDB | The African Development Bank |
| AFOLU | Agriculture, Forestry and Land Use |
| AfSIS | The Africa Soil Information Service |
| AgClim | Agriculture and Climate letters |
| AgMIP | Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project |
| AGRA | Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa |
| AGRHYMET | Centre Regional de Formation et d'Application en Agrométéorologie et Hydrologie Opérationnelle (the Mali Institute for Rural Economy) |
| AgTrials | The Global Agricultural Trial Repository |
| AIC | Agricultural Insurance Company of India |
| ALIN | Arid Lands Information Network |
| AMCEN | African Ministerial Conference on the Environment |
| AMKN | Adaptation and Mitigation Knowledge Network |
| AMMA | African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis |
| ANAFE | African Network for Agriculture, Agroforestry and Natural Resources Education |
| ANAMS | Senegalese National Weather Agency |
| ANCAR | National Agency for Agriculture and Rural Advice (Senegal) |
| APAARI | Asia-Pacific Association of Agricultural Research Institutions |
| APES | Animal, Plant and Enrivonmental Sciences at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |
| APSIM | Agricultural Systems Simulation Platform |
| APSRU | Agricultural Production Systems Research Unit (Australia) |
| AR4 | Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC |
| AR5 | Fifth Assessment Report of the IPCC |
| ARD | Advanced research division |
ARDD | Agriculture and Rural Development Day, an annual event alongside the UNFCCC Conference of parties |
| ARI | Advanced Research Institute |
| ASAP | Adaptation for Smallholder Agriculture Programme |
| ASARECA | Association for Strengthening Agricultural Research in Eastern and Central Africa |
| ASEAN | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| AU | African Union |
| AWARD | African Women in Agricultural Research and Development |
| BARC | Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council |
| BARI | Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute |
| BCAS | Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies |
| BMGF | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation |
| BoT | Board of Trustees |
| BRICS | Grouping acronym that refers to the countries of Brazil,
Russia, India, China and South Africa |
| C | Carbon |
| CA | Central America |
| CA | Conservation Agriculture systems |
| CAADP | Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme |
| CAAS | Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences |
| CAF | Centrally Administered Funds |
| CAMC | Central America and the Caribbean |
| CAN | Comunidad Andina (Andean Community) |
| CAPRi | Program on Collective Action and Property Rights |
| CARE | Christian Action Research and Education |
| CARE-ALP | CARE’s Adaptation Learning Programme for Africa |
| CARIAA | Collaborative Adaptation Research Initiative in Africa and Asia |
| CASFESA | Conservation Agriculture for Smallholder Farmers in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| CB | Consortium Board |
| CBA | Community Based Adaptation |
| CC | Climate Cange |
| CCAFS | CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security |
| CCB | Climate, Community and Biodiversity Standards |
| CCDA | Climate Change and Development in Africa |
| CCEE | CRP-Commissioned Independent External Evaluations |
| CCF-E | Climate Change Forum – Ethiopia |
| CDM | Clean Development Mechanism |
| CEO | Chief Executive Officer |
| CER | Certified Emission Reductions |
| CEREGE | Centre Européen de Recherche et d’Enseignement des Géosciences de l’Environnement |
| CFS | Committee on Food Security |
| CG Centers | Centers within the former Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research, now only known as CGIAR |
| CGE | Computable General Equilibrium |
| CIAT | Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (International Center for Tropical Agriculture) |
| CIDA | Canadian International Development Agency |
| CIFOR | Center for International Forestry Research |
| CILSS | Comité Permanent Inter-Etats de Lutte contre la Sécheresse dans le Sahel (Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel) |
| CIMMYT | International Center for the Improvement of Maize and Wheat |
| CIP | International Potato Center |
| CIRAD | La recherche agronomique pour le développement |
| CLA | Coordinating Lead Author (in the IPCC assessment process) |
| CLIFF | Copenhagen University-initiated Climate Food and Farming Network |
| ClimDev-Africa | Climate for Development in Africa Programme |
| CLUA | The Climate and Land Use Alliance |
| CN | Concept Note |
| CNEARC | Center for Post Graduate Studies in Tropical and Subtropical Agriculture |
| CNEDD-Mali | Conseil National pour l'Environnement et le Développement Durable (The National Council on the Environment and Sustainable Development Mali) |
| CO | CGIAR Consortium Office |
| COMESA | Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa |
| CONEDD | National Council on Environment and Sustainable Development (Burkina Faso, known by its French acronym) |
| COP | Conference of the Parties e.g., to a UN convention |
| CORAF | West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development |
| COSO | Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission |
| CP | Challenge Program of the CGIAR |
| CP | CGIAR Center Contact Point to CCAFS |
| CPWF | CGIAR Challenge Program on Water and Food |
| CRAFT | Crop Forecasting Tools |
| CRIDA | Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, India |
| CRP | CGIAR Research Program |
| CRP 1.1 | Integrated Agricultural Production Systems for the Poor and Vulnerable in Dry Areas |
| CRP 1.2 | Integrated Systems for the Humid Tropics |
| CRP 1.3 | Harnessing the Development Potential of Aquatic Agricultural Systems for the Poor and Vulnerable |
| CRP 2 | Policies, Institutions, and Markets to Strengthen Food Security and Incomes for the Rural Poor |
| CRP 3.1 | WHEAT-Global Alliance for Improving Food Security and the Livelihoods of the Resource-poor in the Developing World |
| CRP 3.2 | MAIZE - Global Alliance for Improving Food Security and the Livelihoods of the Resource-poor in the Developing World |
CRP 3.3 | Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP) |
| CRP 3.4 | Roots, Tubers and Bananas for Food Security and Income |
| CRP 3.5 | Grain Legumes: enhanced food and feed security, nutritional balance, economic growth and soil health for smallholder farmers |
| CRP 3.6 | Dryland cereals: Food Security and Growth for the World’s Most Vulnerable Poor |
| CRP 3.7 | More Meat, Milk and Fish by and for the Poor |
| CRP 4 | Agriculture for Improved Nutrition and Health |
| CRP 5 | Water, Land and Ecosystems |
| CRP 6 | Forests Trees and Agroforestry: Livelihoods, Landscapes and Governance |
| CRP 7 | Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security |
| CRS | Catholic Relief Services |
| CS | Climate service |
| CSA | Climate-smart agriculture |
| CSALP | Climate Smart Agriculture Learning Platform for South Asia |
| CSE | Centre de Suivi Ecologique |
| CSI | Consortium for Spatial Information |
| CSIR | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research |
| CSIRO | The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
| CSISA | The Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia |
| CSM | Cropping System Model |
| CSO | Civil Society Organisations |
| CSP | Climate Services Partnership |
| CSV | Climate-Smart Villages |
| CTA | Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation |
| CU | Coordinating Unit of CCAFS |
| D-Space (cgspace) | Online repository for CCAFS outputs |
| DAC | Development Assistance Committee |
| Danida | Danish International Development Agency |
DAFF | Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (Australia) |
DATA+ | Indicates actual, good quality, data generated by the research process |
| Dataverse | Public portal for full CCAFS data sets |
| DDI | Data Documentation Initiative |
| DDS | Data & Document Store |
| DFID | Department for International Development (UK) |
| DIE | Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (German Development Institute) |
| DIIS | Danish Institute for International Studies |
| DNDC-ART | The DeNitrification-DeComposition Applications, Research and Training |
| DPIPWE | Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment |
| DMS | Data Management Strategy |
| DS | Dryland System |
| DSSAT CSM | Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer Cropping System Model |
| DWR | Directorate of Wheat Research of the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) |
| E3 | Bureau for Economic Growth, Education, and the Environment USAID |
| EA | East Africa – one of the CCAFS target regions |
| EAC | East Africa Community |
| EAFF | Eastern Africa Farmers Federation |
| EAIA | Ex-ante Impact Assessment |
| EC | European Commission |
| ECI | Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University |
| ECOWAS | Economic Community of West African States |
| EEIG | European Economic Interest Group |
| EFARD | European Forum for Agricultural Research for Development |
| EIAR | Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research |
| EM | Evaluation Manager |
| EMBRAPA | Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation) |
| ENDA | Environnement et Développement du Tiers Monde |
| ENR Africa | Environment and Natural Resources Africa Associates Ltd |
| EPA | Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Union and the ACP (Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific) |
| EPIA | Ex-post impact assessment |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning |
| ESA | Eastern and Southern Africa |
| ESA | European Space Agency |
| ESA WUR | Environmental Systems Analysis Group of Wageningen University |
| ESSP | Earth System Science Partnership |
| ETS | Emissions Trading Scheme |
| EU | European Union |
| FP | Flagship Project |
| FACCE JPI | Joint Programming Initiative Agriculture, Food Security and Climate Change |
| FAI | Fertiliser Association of India |
| FANRPAN | Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FAOSTAT | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Statistics Department |
| FARA | Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa |
| FC | Fund Council |
| FCRN | Food Climate Research Network |
| FEWSNET | Famine Early Warning Systems Network |
| FICCI | Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry |
| FOE | Friends of the Earth |
| FSIN | Food Security Information Network |
| FTA | CRP on Forests, Trees and Agroforestry |
| G20 | The Group of Twenty (G-20) Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors |
| GAR | Golden Agri-Resources |
| GCARD | Global Conference on Agricultural Research for Development |
| GCCRP | Global Crop Monitoring Project |
| GCM | Global climate model |
| GCP | Generation Challenge Program |
| GCTE | Global Change and Terrestrial Ecosystems Program |
| GDP | Gross Domestic Product |
| GEC | Global Environment Change |
| GECAFS | Global Environment Change and Food Systems |
| GEF | Global Environment Facility |
| GeoSAS | Geo Space Analytical Services |
| GenderCC | Gender and Climate Change Network |
| GFAR | Global Forum on Agricultural Research |
| GFCS | Global Framework for Climate Services |
| GHG | Greenhouse gas |
| GIA | Ghana Insurers Association |
| GIB Service | Genomics and Integrated Breeding Service |
| GIS | Geographic information systems |
| GIZ | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German International Cooperation) |
| GLAM | General Large-Area Model |
| GLF | Global Landscapes Forum |
| GlobalHort | Global Initiative in Horticultural Sciences |
| GLOBIOM | IIASA global recursively dynamic partial equilibrium model |
| GPS | Global Positioning System |
| GRA | The Global Alliance for Research of Agricultural Greenhouse Gasses |
| GRiSP | The Global Rice Science Partnership |
| GxE | Genotype x Environment |
| HQ | Head Quarter |
| HUMBO | Humbo Ethiopia Assisted Natural Regeneration Project |
| I4 | Index Insurance Innovation Initiative |
| IAASTD | International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development |
| IARI | Indian Agricultural Research Institute |
| ICAR | Indian Council of Agricultural Research |
| ICARDA | International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas |
| ICASA | International Consortium for Agricultural Systems Applications |
| ICCCAD | International Centre for Climate Change and Development, Bangladesh |
| ICICI | Lombard Insurance Company |
| ICIPE | International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology |
| ICPAC | IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Center |
| ICRAF | World Agroforestry Centre |
| ICRISAT | International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics |
| ICSU | International Council for Science |
| ICT | Information and communication technology |
| IDOs | Intermediate Development Outcomes |
| IDRC | International Development Research Centre |
| IDS | The Institute of Development Studies |
| IEA | Independent Evaluation Arrangement |
| IER | Institute for Rural Economy of Mali |
| IFAD | International Fund for Agricultural Development |
| IFFCO | Indian Farmers Fertiliser Cooperative Limited |
| IFPRI | International Food Policy Research Institute |
| IFRI | International Forestry Resources and Institutions |
| IFS | International Foundation for Science |
| IGAD | Intergovernmental Authority on Development |
| IGBP | International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme |
| IGP | Indo-Gangetic Plains |
| IHSN | International Household Survey Network |
| IIAM | Agricultural Research Institute of Mozambique |
| IIASA | International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis |
| IIED | International Institute for Environment and Development |
| IIPACC | Innovative Insurance Products for the Adaption to Climate Change |
| IITA | International Institute for Tropical Agriculture |
| IITM | Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology |
| ILRI | International Livestock Research Institute |
| IMD | India Meteorology Department |
| IMPACT | Climate model developed by IFPRI |
| IndMozGoat | Small ruminant value chains as platforms for reducing poverty and increasing food security in dryland areas of India and Mozambique |
| INERA | L'institut de l'environnement et de recherches agricoles |
| INPE | The Brazil Government’s National Institute of Space Research |
| INRA | Institut national de la recherche agronomique |
| INSAH | The Sahel Institute; focuses on scientific research in the Sahelian countries |
| IP | Intellectual Property |
| IPAM | Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental da Amazônia |
| IPBES | International Panel for Biodiversity and Environmental Services |
| IPC | Integrated Phase Classification |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IPG | International public good |
| IPR | Intellectual property rights |
| IRD | Institut de recherche pour le développement (France) / Institute of Research for Development |
| IRI | International Research Institute for Climate and Society |
| IRRI | International Rice Research Institute |
| ISFM | Integrated Soil Fertility Management |
| ISP | Independent Science Panel, which advises CCAFS |
| ISPC | Independent Science and Partnership Council |
| ISRA | Senegalese National Agricultural Research Institute |
| ITPGRFA | International Treaty on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture |
| ITS | Institute for the Tropics and Subtropics |
| IUCN | World Conservation Union |
| IWMI | International Water Management Institute |
| JRC | Joint Research Center |
| KARI | Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute |
| KMD | Kenya Meteorological Department |
| LA | Lead Author (in the IPCC assessment process) |
| LAC | Latin America and the Caribbean |
| LAM | Latin America |
| LEI | The Agricultural Economics Research Institute |
| LTHE | Laboratoire d’étude des Transferts en Hydrologie et Environnement |
| M&E | Monitoring and evaluation |
| MADR | Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development |
| MDG | Millennium Development Goal |
| MENA | Middle East and North Africa region |
| MICCA | Migration of Climate Change in Agriculture |
| MIT | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| MoA | Ministry of Agriculture |
| MoE | Ministry of Environment |
| MOEF | Ministry of Environment and Forests, Govt of India |
| MRV | Monitoring, Reporting and Verification |
| MSc | Master of Science |
| NAAS | National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (India) |
| NAMA | Nationally Appropriate Mitigation Actions |
| NAP | National Adaptation Plan |
| NAPA | National Adaptation Programmes of Action |
| NARC | Nepal Agricultural Research Council |
| NARES | National agricultural research and extension system |
| NARI | International Forestry Resources and Institutions |
| NARO | National Agricultural Research Organization |
| NARO | National Agricultural and Food Research Organization, Japan |
| NARS | National Agricultural Research Systems |
| NASA-JPL | The Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (USA) |
| NBPGR | National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, India |
| NCAR | National Center for Atmospheric Research |
| NDRI | Nepal Development Research Institute |
| NEPAD | New Partnership for Africa’s Development |
| NERC | National Environmental Research Council |
| NGO | Non-governmental organisation |
| NIC | National Insurance Commission (Ghana) |
| NIDM | National Institute of Disaster Management, India |
| NIES | National Institute for Environmental Studies |
| NMA | National Meteorology Agency (of Ethiopia) |
| NMHS | National Meteorological and Hydrological Services |
| NMS | National meteorological services |
| NR | Natural resources |
| NRM | Natural Resource Management |
| NWCF | Nepal Water Conservation Foundation |
| OECD | Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
| PABRA | Pan-Africa Bean Research Alliance |
| PAFA | Le Projet d'appui aux filières agricoles (Mali) |
| PANOS | Global communications network of institutes, focused on international development |
| PAR | Participatory Action Research |
| PBL | Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency |
| PECS | Program on Ecosystem Change and Society (ICSU-UNESCO) |
| PES | Payments for Environmental Services |
| PhD | Doctor of Philosophy |
| PIK | Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research |
| PIM | Policies, Institutions and Markets |
| PIRCCA | Policy Information and Response Platform on Climate Change and Rice in ASEAN and its Member Countries |
| PMC | Program Management Committee |
| PRADAN | Professional Assistance for Development Action |
| PRESAO | Seasonal Forecast in West Africa |
| PROLINNOVA | Promoting local innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural-resource management |
| PSROI | Participatory Social Return of Investment |
| ODA | Overseas Development Assistance |
| PSU | Project Support Unit |
| RAP | Realising the Agricultural Potential of inland valley lowlands in Sub-Saharan Africa while maintaining their environmental services |
| RCM | Regional climate model |
| RCT | Resource Conserving Technologies |
| REDD+ | Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation |
| RF | Rockefeller Foundation |
| RG | Reference Group |
| RIO +20 | United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development |
| RLP | Regional Learning Partnership |
| RMF | Results Monitoring Framework |
| ROPPA | Réseau des organizations paysannes et des producteurs agricoles de l’Afrique de l’Ouest (Network of Farmers' and Agricultural Producers' Organisations of West Africa) |
| RPL | Regional Program Leader (CCAFS) |
| RUFORUM | Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture |
| RWC | Rice Wheat Consortium |
| SAARC | South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation |
| SACAU | South African Confederation of Agricultural Unions |
| SADC-PF | Southern African Development Community Parliamentary Forum |
| SAI | Sustainable Agriculture Initiative |
| SAME | South America |
| SARI | Savannah Agricultural Research Institute (Ghana, West Africa) |
| SA(s) | South Asia |
| SAF | Southern Africa |
| SAsia | South Asia |
| SAUs | State Agricultural Universities |
| SBSTA | Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice |
| SC | Science Council |
| SDDR | Senegalese Ministry of Agriculture |
| SDMC | South Asian Disaster Management Centre |
| SDPI | Sustainable Development Policy Institute |
| SE Asia | South East Asia |
| SEA | South East Asia |
| SEAM | Support for Environmental Assessment and Management |
| SEI | Stockholm Environment Institute |
| SFL | Sustainable Food Lab |
| SID | Society for International Development |
| SIMLESA | Sustainable Intensification of Maize-Legume cropping systems for food security in Eastern and Southern Africa |
| SLM | Sustainable land management |
| SLO | System Level Outcomes |
| SMART | Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound |
| SPIA | Standing Panel on Impact Assessment |
| SROI | Social Return on Investment |
| SRF | Strategy and Results Framework (of the CGIAR) |
| SSA | Sub-Saharan Africa |
| START | Global change System for Analysis, Research and Training |
| T-AGG | Technical Working Group on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases |
| T1 | CCAFS Theme 1 – Adaptation to Progressive Climate change |
| T2 | CCAFS Theme 2 – Adaptation through Managing Climate Risk |
| T3 | CCAFS Theme 3 – Pro-poor Climate Change Mitigation |
| T4 | CCAFS Theme 4 – Integration for Decision-Making |
| TAMSAT | Tropical Applications of Meteorology using SATellite data and ground-based observations |
| TBC | To Be Confirmed |
| TBD | To Be Determined |
| TIA | Tasmanian Institute of Agricultural Research |
| TIST | The International Small Group Tree Planting Program |
| TL | Theme Leader (CCAFS) |
| ToC | Tools of Change |
| ToR | Terms of Reference |
| TPEs | Target Plant Environments |
| TSBF | Tropical Soil Biology and Fertility |
| TSU | Technical Support Unit (of the IPCC) |
| UBC | University of British Columbia |
| UCAR | University Corporation for Atmospheric Research |
| UCR | University of California, Riverside |
| UK | United Kingdom |
| UMB Norway | The Norwegian University of Life Sciences |
| UMB USA | The University of Massachusetts Boston US |
| UNDP | United Nations Development Programme |
| UNED | United Nations Environment and Development |
| UNEP | United Nations Environment Programme |
| UNESCO | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization |
| UNFCCC | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| UNFF | United Nations Forum on Forests |
| UNREDD | United Nations Collaborative Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Developing Countries |
UoC | University of Copenhagen |
| USAID | United States Agency for International Development |
| USDA | The United States Department of Agriculture |
| UTAS | University of Tasmania |
| VAM | Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (World Food Programme) |
| VCS | Voluntary Carbon Standard, a quality standard for voluntary carbon offset industry. |
| W | Window |
| WA | West Africa – one of the CCAFS target regions |
| WANA | West Africa and Northern Africa |
| WASCAL | West African Science Service Center on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use |
| WCRP | World Climate Research Program |
| WECARD | West and Central African Council for Agricultural Research and Development |
| WEDO | Women’s Environment and Development Organization |
| WEF | World Economic Forum |
| WFP | World Food Programme |
| WITS | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg |
| WLE | Water, Land and Ecosystems |
| WMO | World Meteorological Organization |
| WOCAN | Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture & Natural Resources Management |
| WorldFish | CIGAR Research Center dedicated to reducing poverty and hunger by improving fisheries and aquaculture |
| WSPC | Water Science and Policy Center, University of California, Riverside |
| WUR | Wageningen University |
| ZimGoat | Increasing food security and household income through smallstock market development in Zimbabwe |
