• This Commitment stresses the need to promote the research needed to continue international efforts to develop, disseminate and apply climate forecast information that will increase sustainable agricultural, fisheries and forestry productivity and be of particular benefit to developing countries.

• Implementing soil conservation is limited by factors such as low farmer incomes, low productivity, and a low standard of living in areas with serious soil-erosion.

• Owing to considerable GE, their effects on productivity under stress in the field are very difficult to determine and disappointingly few root QTLs have been found to be related to yield.