ACPC |
Association of Coffee Producing Countries |
ADLI |
agricultural development-led industrialization |
AFTA |
ASEAN Free Trade Area |
AIDS |
acquired immunodeficiency syndrome |
AsDB |
Asian Development Bank |
ASEAN |
Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
ATC |
Agreement on Textiles and Clothing |
BANDESA |
Banco Nacional de Desarrollo Agrícola (Guatemala) |
BMI |
body mass index |
BMR |
basal metabolic rate |
BSE |
bovine spongiform encephelopathy |
CARICOM |
Caribbean Community and Common Market |
CBPP |
contagious bovine pleuropneumonia |
CIS |
Commonwealth of Independent States |
CMEA |
Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (superseded by OIEC in 1992) |
CONTAG |
Confederação Nacional dos Trabalhadores na Agricultura (Brazil) |
DAC |
Development Assistance Committee |
DALYs |
disability-adjusted life years |
DES |
dietary energy supply |
DFID |
Department for International Development (United Kingdom) |
DNA |
deoxyribonucleic acid |
EC |
European Communities (also called European Union) |
EC |
European Community |
EFSR |
Emergency Food Security Reserve |
EIU |
Economist Intelligence Unit |
EMPRES |
Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases |
EU |
European Union (also called European Communities) |
FAC |
Food Aid Convention |
FDI |
foreign direct investment |
FIVIMS |
Food Insecurity and Vulnerability Information and Mapping Systems |
FUNDACEN |
Fundación Centavo (Guatemala) |
GAP |
Southeast Anatolia Project (Turkey) |
GATT |
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
GCC |
Gulf Cooperation Council |
GDP |
gross domestic product |
GEF |
Global Environment Facility |
GIS |
geographic information system |
GMO |
genetically modified organism |
GNP |
gross national product |
GTZ |
German Agency for Technical Cooperation |
HDI |
Human Development Index |
HIV |
human immunodeficiency virus |
IAEA |
International Atomic Energy Agency |
IBRD |
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development |
ICO |
International Coffee Organization |
ICCO |
International Cocoa Organization |
ICSU |
International Council of Scientific Unions |
IDA |
International Development Association |
IFPRI |
International Food Policy Research Institute |
ILO |
International Labour Organization |
IMF |
International Monetary Fund |
INCORA |
Instituto Nacional Colombiano de la Reforma Agraria (Colombia) |
INCRA |
Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforme Agrária (Brazil) |
INTA |
Instituto Nacional de Transformación Agraria (Guatemala) |
ISA |
International Sugar Agreement |
IUCN |
World Conservation Union |
kcal |
kilocalorie |
LIFDC |
low-income food-deficit country |
MBM |
meat and bone meal |
MFN |
most favoured nation (WTO) |
MST |
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Brazil) |
NAFTA |
North American Free Trade Agreement |
NGO |
non-governmental organization |
ODA |
official development assistance |
OECD |
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
OIE |
International Office of Epizootics |
OIEC |
Organization for International Economic Cooperation |
OPEC |
Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries |
PADETES |
Participatory Demonstration and Training Extension System (Ethiopia) |
PAHO |
Pan-American Health Organization |
PEM |
protein-energy malnutrition |
PRONAF |
Programa Nacional de Fortalecimento da Agricultura Familiar (Brazil) |
PSE |
producer support estimate |
RPPO |
Regional Plant Protection Organization |
SCOPE |
Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (ICSU) |
SD |
standard deviation |
SIP |
sectoral investment programme |
SPS |
Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (WTO) |
SSG |
special safeguard (provisions) |
TSE |
total support estimate |
TSE |
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (EC regulation) |
UN-ACC |
United Nations Administrative Committee on Coordination |
UNAIDS |
Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS |
UNCTAD |
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
USAID |
United States Agency for International Development |
USDA |
United States Department of Agriculture |
vCJD |
variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease |
WFP |
World Food Programme |
WHO |
World Health Organization |
WTO |
World Trade Organization |
