Posted June 2001

Country Thematic Groups

In 2001, the Thematic Group in Sri Lanka has been re-activated and has started collecting information for an inventory of past projects and programmes in food security and agriculture implemented in the country since 1997. The Group is preparing a format for information collection - in a similar exercise to the one being undertaken by the Thematic Group in Niger - which will contribute to the preparation of Sri Lanka's input to the World Food Summit: Five Years Later (WFS: fyl), as well as feed into the recently initiated UN common database for the country. Importantly, the Ministry of Agriculture has agreed to help coordinate the collection of information, in close collaboration with FAO.

These future Group activities formed the basis of discussions at the recent Group meeting on 8 March, but members also explored the possibility of supporting the implementation of FAO's Special Programme for Food Security (SPFS) in the near future. The Programme is now in operation in the North Western Province of Sri Lanka.

For further information, contact: FAO-LKA@field.fao.org