They also warned that United Nations (UN) climate negotiators in Warsaw risked '€œturning their backs on some of the world's most vulnerable and poorest'€.

'€œWe are wasting precious time as a result of a disjointed, discombobulated dance,'€ said World Bank vice president for sustainable development, Rachel Kyte, in an official release on Monday.

She made the statements when speaking at the Global Landscapes Forum held on the sidelines of the UN climate talks in Warsaw, Poland.

As many as 1,200 participants from 120 countries attended the forum.

'€œIf the world continues to fund crop expansion on one hand but forest protection on the other, we are simply wasting taxpayers'€™ money,'€ Kyte said.

The experts have also called for a '€œlandscape approach'€ to rural development. The approach brings together the agriculture, forestry, energy, and fisheries sectors to come with collaborative and innovative solutions to ease increasing pressure on the world'€™s resources, which are threatened by climate change.

Director of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security, Bruce Campbell, said the most recent disaster in the Philippines should be a call to action on climate change.

'€œHow many super storms will we have before the world starts to take climate change seriously? ['€¦ ] we have the knowledge, we need to act,'€ he said.

Farming, fisheries, energy and forestry sectors have been managed separately despite their interrelatedness. Agriculture is the prime mover of deforestation although it depends on forests for water, pollination and other ecosystem services. (ebf)

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