List of common used abbreviations and acronyms
| AC | : | Adaptation Committee |
| AF | : | Adaptation Fund |
| AGN |
: | African Group of Negotiators made up of African members of the United Nations |
| AILAC | : | Independent Association for Latin America and the Caribbean: Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Panama, Paraguay and Peru |
| AIT | : | Asian Institute of Technology |
| ALBA | : | The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America: Bolivia, Cuba, Dominica, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Venezuela |
| AMAF | : | ASEAN Ministers of Agriculture and Forestry |
| AMIA | : | Adaptation and Mitigation Initiatives in Agriculture |
| AMS | : | ASEAN member states |
| ANGA | : | ASEAN Negotiators Group on Agriculture |
| APA | : | Ad Hoc Working Group on the Paris Agreement |
| AOSIS | : | Alliance of Small Island States: 44 island and low-lying coastal countries |
| APEC | : | Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation |
| ASEAN | : | Association of Southeast Asian Nations |
| ASEAN-CRN | : | ASEAN Climate Resilience Network |
| ASFCC | : | ASEAN-Swiss Partnership on Social Forestry and Climate Change |
| Asia DHRRA | : | Asian Partnership for the Development of Human Resources in Rural Asia |
| ASOEN | : | ASEAN Senior. Officials on Environment |
| ASOF | : | ASEAN Senior Officials on Forestry |
| ASWGC | : | ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Crops |
| ASWGCC | : | ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Climate Change |
| ASWGFi | : | ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Fisheries |
| ASWGL | : | ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on. Livestock |
| ATWGARD | : | ASEAN Technical Working Group on Agricultural Research and Development |
| AWG-SF | : | ASEAN Working Group on Social Forestry |
| AWG-FCC | : | ASEAN Working Group on Forest and Climate Change |
| BASIC | : | Brazil, South Africa, India and China |
| BAPPENAS | : | Ministry of National Development Planning (Indonesia) |
| BMKG | : | The Indonesian Agency for Meteorological, Climatological and Geophysics |
| BRIA | : | Better Rice Initiative Asia |
| BRICS | : | Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa |
| CACAM Group | : | Central Asia, Caucasus, Albania and Moldova |
| CARDI | : | Cambodian Agricultural Research and Development Institute |
| CARICOM | : | Caribbean Community: Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Lucia, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago |
| CBDR | : | Common but differentiated responsibilities |
| CCA | : | Climate Change Asia |
| CCAFS | : | Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security |
| CCROM SEAP | : | the Centre for Climate Risk and Opportunity Management in Southeast Asia Pasific |
| CD | : | Cartagena Dialogue: informal alliance of about 40 countries |
| CFS | : | Climate Field Schools |
| CGE | : | Consultative Group of Experts |
| CIAT | : | International Center for Tropical Agriculture |
| CIS | : | Climate information services |
| CIMMYT | : | The International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center |
| CMA | : | Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Paris Agreement |
| CMP | : | Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol |
| COP | : | Conference of the Parties |
| CSA | : | Climate Smart Agriculture |
| CSLU | : | Climate Smart Land Use in ASEAN |
| CSRD | : | Climate Services for Resilient Development |
| CTCN | : | Climate Technology Centre and Network |
| CVF | : | Climate Vulnerable Forum: made up of 20 nations which describe themselves as ‘highly vulnerable to a warming planet’ |
| DA-BAR | : | Philippines Department of Agriculture – Bureau of Agricultural Research |
| DAP | : | Myanmar Department of Agriculture Planning |
| DOA | : | Thailand Department of Agriculture |
| DSMK | : | Damnai Sabai Mongkul, glutinous rice variety tolerant to droughts and floods when planted at low lying fields. |
| EIG | : | The Environmental Integrity Group: Mexico, Liechtenstein, Monaco, South Korea and Switzerland |
| FAO | : | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FOR-CC | : | Forest and Climate Change |
| GAP-CC | : | ASEAN-German Programme on Response to Climate Change |
| GCF | : | Green Climate Fund |
| GEF | : | Global Environment Facility |
| GHG | : | Greenhouse Gas |
| GIZ | : | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit |
| G77 | : | The Group of 77 countries (initially) and China (currently totaling 134 countries) |
| GRULAC | : | Group of Latin American and Caribbean States |
| IAARD | : | Indonesian Agency for Agricultural Research and Development |
| IAHRI | : | Indonesian Agroclimate and Hydrology Research Institute |
| ICFORD | : | Indonesian Center for Food Crops Research and Development |
| ICRR | : | Indonesian Center for Rice Research |
| IPB | : | Institut Pertanian Bogor (Bogor Agricultural University) |
| IPCC | : | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IPSARD | : | the Institute of Policy and Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Development |
| IRRI | : | International Rice Research Institute |
| KJWA | : | Koronivia joint work on agriculture |
| LAS | : | League of Arab States: Arab nations in northern and north-eastern Africa and south-western Asia |
| LDCs | : | Countries designated by the United Nations as least developed |
| LEG | : | Least Developed Countries Expert Group |
| LMDCs | : | Like-Minded Developing Countries: Algeria, Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Dominica, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, India, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Malaysia, Mali, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria and Venezuela |
| MARD | : | Vietnam Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development |
| MARDI | : | Malaysia Agriculture Research and Development |
| MLDCs | : | Mountainous Landlocked Developing Countries: Armenia, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan |
| MRV | : | Measuring, reporting, verification |
| MOA | : | Ministry of Agriculture |
| MOAC | : | Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives |
| NAFRI | : | Laos National Agriculture and Forestry Research Institute |
| NAIPP | : | National agriculture insurance pilot program |
| NAP | : | National adaptation plan |
| NDC | : | Nationally determined contribution |
| NGOs | : | Non-government organizations |
| NSFCRC | : | Nakhon Sawan Field Crops Research Center |
| NWP | : | Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change |
| OAE | : | Thailand Office of Agricultural Economics |
| OPEC | : | Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries |
| PCCB | : | Paris Committee on Capacity-building |
| PCIC | : | Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation |
| RECOFTC | : | The Center for People and Forests |
| SB | : | Subsidiary body session |
| SBI | : | Subsidiary Body for Implementation |
| SBSTA | : | Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice |
| SCF | : | Standing Committee on Finance |
| SDGs | : | Sustainable Development Goals |
| SEAFAST | : | Southeast Asia Food and Agriculture Science and Technology Center |
| SEARCA | : | Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture |
| SFA | : | The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) and the Animal & Veterinary Service (AVS). (Previously known as Singapore Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) |
| SOM-AMAF | : | Senior Officials Meeting |
| SOM-RDPE | : | Senior Officials Meeting on Rural Development and Poverty Eradication |
| TEC | : | Technology Executive Committee |
| UNCC | : | United Nations Conference Centre |
| UNDP | : | United Nations Development Programme |
| UNFCCC | : | United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change |
| USAID | : | The U.S. Agency for International Development |
| WIM | : | Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage associated with Climate Change Impacts. |
| WOCAN | : | Women Organizing for Change in Agriculture and Natural Resource Management |