| A4NH | CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health |
| ABS | Access and benefit-sharing |
| ACODERJE | Asociación para la Coordinación del Desarrollo Rural de San Juan Ermita |
| ANMs | Auxiliary nurse midwife |
| APL | Above poverty line |
| ASEDECHI | Asociación de Servicios y Desarrollo Socioeconómico de Chiquimula |
| ASHA | Accredited social healthy activist |
| ASORECH | Asociación Regional Campesina Ch’orti’ |
| ATICOYA | Asociación de autoridades indígenas del resguardo Tikuna, Cocama, Yagua |
| AUNAP | Autoridad Nacional de Acuicultura y Pesca de Colombia |
| BEES | Barefoot Environment Educators |
| BMC | Biodiversity Management Committee |
| BPL | Below poverty line |
| CADER | Programa de Agricultura Familiar y Centros de Aprendizaje para el Desarrollo Rural |
| CFC | Christian Fellowship Church |
| CFS | Committee on World Food Security |
| CHINAR | Central Himalayan Institute for Nature & Applied Research |
| CIAT | International Center for Tropical Agriculture |
| CIFOR | Center for International Forestry Research |
| CINE | Center for Indigenous Peoples’ Nutrition and Environment |
| COAG | Committee on Agriculture |
| COCODE(S) | Consejo(s) Comunitario(s) de Desarrollo Rural |
| COFI | Committee on Fisheries |
| COFO | Committee on Forestry |
| COMUNDICH | Coordinadora de Asociaciones y Comunidades para el Desarrollo Integral del Pueblo Ch’orti’ |
| CONAP | Consejo Nacional de Áreas Protegidas |
| COVAREF | Comités de Valorisation des Ressources Fauniques |
| DANE | Departamento Adminstrativo Nacional de Estadística |
| ENAM | Energía para el Amazonas |
| EUR | Euro |
| FAO | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
| FPIC | Free, prior and informed consent |
| GIAHS | Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems |
| GPS | Global positioning system |
| GTQ | Guatemalan quetzal |
| HACCP | Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point |
| ICBF | Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar |
| ICDS | Integrated Child Development Scheme |
| INAB | Instituto Nacional de Bosques de Guatemala |
| INR | Indian rupee |
| INSTAT | Institut national de la statistique du Mali |
| IPCC | Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change |
| IRD | French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development |
| ITCZ | Intertropical convergence zone |
| KSO | Khadar Shnong Organization |
| LPG | Liquefied petroleum gas |
| MASL | Metres above sea level |
| MDC | Members of Autonomous District Councils |
| MeECL | Meghalaya Electricity Corporation Limited |
| MEHRD | Ministry of Education and Human Resources and Development |
| MGNREGA | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act |
| MGNREGS | Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme |
| MHIS | Meghalaya Health Insurance Scheme |
| MLA | Members of State Legislative Assembly |
| MRDS | Meghalaya Rural Development Society |
| NEN | North East Network |
| NESFAS | North East Slow Food and Agrobiodiversity Society |
| NGO | Non-governmental organization |
| NGT | National Green Tribunal |
| NIAHS | Nationally Important Agriculture Heritage System |
| NORAD | Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation |
| NTFP | Non-timber forest product |
| PAFFEC | Programa de Familiar para el Fortalecimiento de la Economia Campesina |
| PBR | People’s Biodiversity Register |
| PDS | Public distribution system |
| PET | Polyethylene terephtalate |
| PGS | Participatory guarantee system |
| pH | Potential of hydrogen (a figure expressing the acidity or alkalimity of a solution) |
| PHE | Public Health Engineering Department |
| PINPEP | Programa de incentivos forestales para poseedores de pequeñas extensiones de tierra de vocación forestal o agroforestal |
| PKH | Pastoralist Knowledge Hub |
| REDD+ | Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation |
| ROS | Rain-on-snow |
| SDA | Seventh-day Adventist Church |
| SHG | Self-help group |
| SSF | Small-scale fisheries |
| SIMSAN | Sistema de Información Municipal de Seguridad Alimentaria y Nutricional |
| TD | Thematic discussions |
| Ticoya | Tikuna-Cocama-Yagua indigenous reserve |
| TIP | The Indigenous Partnership for Agrobiodiversity and Food Sovereignty |
| UNDRIP | United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples |
| UNPFII | United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues |
| UREDA | Uttarakhand Renewable Energy Development Agency |
| USD | United States dollar |
| VDC | Village Development Committee |
| VDMC | Village Disaster Management Committee |
| VEC | Village Employment Committee |
| VGGT | Voluntary Guidelines on Responsible Governance of Tenure of Land, Fisheries and Forests in the Context of National Food Security |
| VHNSC | Village Health Nutrition and Sanitation Committee |
| VWSC | Village Water Sanitation Committee |
| XAF | Central African CFA franc |
