Identify appropriate test-kits and conduct validation of the selected test-kits to suit the different type soils, crops and farming practices Develop soil types? nutrient profiles for field test-kit reference through laboratory analysis Support the accreditation process of the Central Soil Testing Laboratory Capacity development of Agricultural Officers in implementing site-specific fertilizer recommendations

Food security and income generation ability of 10 500 drought-affected smallholder farming households partly restored and made more climate resilient.

To provide the technical information and guidance through the FAO identified an expert on GI, to organize two back to back seminars on World trend towards the GI to fill the knowledge gap and build a dialogue on GI in Sri Lanka with the presence of private sector stakeholders and relevant officials. The first seminar will gather the private sector stakeholders of the export agriculture to discuss the potential access of Sri Lankan products to international markets with a GI. The second seminar will involve officials from the relevant government institutions to review the process for obtaining GI designations.

The objective of this project is to analyse existing policies and development plans related to agriculture and the Spice and Allied Crops sectors and their changing contexts to develop up-dated policies in close consultation with all stakeholders.

The project will assist the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development and other concerned entities to address the Red Card imposed by the European Commission on Sri Lanka in October 2014 as a non-cooperating third country, which effectively imposed a ban on the importation of raw and processed fish from Sri Lanka to the Union. The project will therefore support a review, consolidation and updating of the relevant legal framework, provide training and other capacity development to the involved bodies and entities including central and decentralized staff of the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources Development, Fisheries Inspectors, the Coast Guard, the Navy, fishing vessel owners, etc., on fishing vessel inspection and the Monitoring, Control and Surveillance of fishing vessels, and will contribute to an analysis of the longer-term hardware- and skills needs related to Port State Measures and IUU prevention and control.

The Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) has requested FAO to formulate and implement a project under GEF 6 entitled ?Promoting sustainable forest management and improving livelihoods through integrated land use planning and forest landscape restoration?. The funding was intended to be pooled from the biodiversity, land degradation, climate change and sustainable forest management (SFM) focal areas of the GEF. Using FAO/TCI funding, the Project Identification Form (PIF) was formulated and endorsed by the GoSL. However, before its official submission to the GEF, FAO was informally advised that the funding from SFM would not flow to Sri Lanka. It was recognized that this situation requires a significant reformulation of the project, but also that the reduced budget puts the project in a category in which a PIF is not mandatory and a full project document can be formulated directly. While this approach saves time and resources, it also means that the PPG funding will only be received after the approval of the project. The TCP Facility is thus being requested by the GoSL to support the formulation of the full project document, given that the GoSL does not have the technical capacity to do so and that funding through other means such as the PPG is not efficient in time and human resources.

To make the dairying an economically profitable venture exploiting the optimum production potential of the crossbred cattle & buffaloes under semi-intensive production system.

TThe primary objective will be an improvement in the quality, supply, and use of semi-commercial and farm-made aquafeeds and better health management resulting increased aquaculture production. The introduction of novel aquafeed manufacturing technologies, better feed manufacturing practices, better health management practices and the provision of training and capacity building will improve the quality and supply of the aquafeeds manufactured in Sri Lanka.

Restoring livelihoods of around 16,200 drought-affected smallholder agricultural households in three of the most affected districts in the dry zone of Sri Lanka.

To enhance energy efficiency and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by promoting the adoption of improved bioenergy technologies for heat applications in the domestic and small-scale enterprise sector in Sri Lanka

To strengthen institutional, regulatory and technical capacities for the effective implementation of the National Biosafety Framework in conformity with the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB)

Project Environment Objective: To reverse and arrest land degradation in agricultural lands in Kandy, Nuwara Eliya and Badulla districts in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka Project Development Objective: To increase the provision of ecosystem goods and services and enhance food security in the Central Highlands of Sri Lanka through the promotion of Sustainable Land Management (SLM)

To promote the integration of small producers into the production value chains in agriculture through promoting inclusive business models, ensuring that product standards respond to real market needs, strengthening and empowering producers, associations and cooperatives and improving market information.

To study the present status of resources utilization, reactivate co management committees established through previous project ,declare and gazette management areas identified under the previous project, review/ Update/ formulate management plans, introduce logbooks for fisheries data collection, provide alternative livelihoods for the affected fishermen, enhance the natural stocks of sea cucumber, marine ornamental fish and lobster through breeding and releasing and strengthen and build capacity of community based surveillance/warden groups

To contribute to poverty reduction in North and East Sri Lanka and to bridging the socio-economic gap with the rest of the country through supporting sustainable regional and local development and good governance in conflict-affected areas.

1. Improve efficiency and effectiveness of government investment on food security and nutrition by highlighting the gaps, opportunities and impact of current initiatives; 2. Achieve attitudinal and behavioral changes through enhanced nutrition education and nutrition promotion on safe and nutrient foods, dietary diversity, nutrient deficiencies and its root causes.

Sri Lanka UNREDD National Programme

The project aims at reviewing national policy framework and fostering enabling policy environment for production diversification and dietary diversity, especially tapping the potential of highly nutritious and climate-sensitive underutilized crops to address malnutrition in selected countries.

The project will develop quality knowledge products on practically proven innovative aquaculture farming practices for sharing among the regional initiative focus countries and will conduct regional/national workshops and farm demonstration for building human capacity of the participating countries in adopting selected aquaculture farming practices and the project will also seek to develop specific regional and national strategy to promote the innovative aquaculture farming practices, which will contribute significantly to sustainable development of aquaculture for blue economic growth in the region.

This project will support governments in six focus countries to develop national CSA programmes (and/or integrate CSA priorities into existing plans and programmes), linking CSA investments to NDCs and global climate finance mechanisms, based on regional best practice and knowledge.

Building Statistical Capacity for Monitoring Sustainable Development Goals related to Food Security.

This TCP-F will work with countries and regional partners to develop two independent regional projects for submission to GEF (IW, BD and CC) in the form of PIFs. These will respectively assist i) Gulf of Thailand countries and ii) Lower Mekong Basin countries in meeting the environmental, social, economic and governance challenges they face in fisheries sectors and Gulf of Thailand and LMB sub-regions. The expected combined value of potential GEF projects is conservatively estimated to be 13 Million USD related to grant and 60 MUSD including co-financing.

The proposed regional TCP is also a planned regional activity to contribute to the Regional Initiative on Sustainable Intensification of Aquaculture for Blue Growth in Asia and the Pacific.

Counterparts have the knowledge and skills to restore degraded forestlands in the project countries using landscape approach through the adoption of FLR in national forest restoration strategies

This project will address those challenges by adopting a holistic approach that focuses on working with governments to not only develop their national e-Agriculture Strategies but also to support them in implementing some of the high priority ICT for Agriculture interventions already identified in the strategy that hold the most promising potential impact for improved agriculture outcomes in areas such as researcher-farmer-extension agricultural communication, inclusive financial services, market prices access, etc.

To strengtheing livestock sector policy analysis, design and negotiation capacity in ASEAN member countries representing a range of livestock production systems.

Effective development of regional food and nutrition security frameworks and their delivery mechanisms through a strengthened SAARC

The proposed project will adopt an integrated, multistakeholder and holistic ?plot to pot? food production system that will combine the production of a variety of nutritious vegetables and fruits and small scale livestock such as chickens, ducks and aquaculture toward a more self-reliant provision of school meals. School gardens and nutrition education will be integrated into the school curricula so it becomes an integral part of the teaching and learning process. School-community links to promote shared responsibility between government and communities will be strengthened. Home gardens will help improving the diets of households and nutrition education will contribute to family nutrition.

A regional project for Small-Scale Farmer Inclusion in Organic Agriculture Value Chains through Participatory Guarantee Systems would aim at assisting selected countries where local organic markets are developing and where a PGS would allow more small farmers to benefit from these emerging high value markets.

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Establish the framework and a roadmap for the South Asia Disease Surveillance Network involving eight South Asian countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka) by bringing the identified experts for a consultative meeting and discussion.

The main objective of the project is to strengthen phytosanitary capacity of NPPOs and technical supporting organizations/entities (e.g. universities) of the recipient countries. This will be achieved through providing technical and operation manuals, organizing field and laboratory trainings and workshops and developing recommendations to be used by the respective NPPOs, in implementation of phytosanitary activities for international movement of seeds. In addition, the promotion of changes in the consciousness of general public and related private sectors through this project will contribute to preventing introduction and spread of pests associated with the international movement of seeds. Also, the project achievements and findings can be useful reference for the member consultations on the draft ISPM on seeds, which has been elaborated in the IPPC framework, and will contribute to the harmonization of relevant phytosanitary measures.

To promote a more prudent antimicrobial usage within the Asian livestock production industry leading to a reduction in antimicrobial resistance.

The project aims at reducing the spread of H5N1 in poultry in the country, thus minimizing the risk of contagion to other mammals and humans and the possibility of a pandemic.

Cooperation in Plant Protection by member countries in the Region

Cooperation in Plant Protection by member countries in the Region

Commission for Controlling the Desert Locust in South-West Asia

The overall goal of the project is to protect the health of the consumers and ensure fair practices in the food trade within ASEAN countries as well as with other countries including Japan. The project also aims to establish a stronger relationship between ASEAN countries and the donor, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan.

The project will contribute to the food and livelihood security of smallholders, by integrating them into agricultural value chains (dairy, fishery and vegetable) that link them to new market opportunities.

To support Pacific SIDS in meeting their obligations to implement and effectively enforce global, regional and sub-regional arrangements for the conservation and management of transboundary oceanic fisheries thereby increasing sustainable benefits derived from these fisheries.

The Objective of the project is to reduce priority unintentionally produced POPs (uPOPs) emissions arising from poor waste management practices, thus meeting parties? Convention obligations to improve the management of chemicals in countries in the Pacific region, through assistance in the development and implementation of uPOPs strategies and guidelines, vocational training of waste workers, training of PIC staff in improved chemicals management, and the development of a regional waste oil export and reuse system.

The project objective is to strengthen the capacity within SAARC to support regional coordination for the control of TADs. This will be achieved through strengthening the Regional Support Unit, Regional Epidemiology Centre and Regional Diagnostic Laboratories. These structures will enable the SAARC member countries (Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka) to address common issues related to TADs that are predominantly spread by informal cross-border value chains in livestock products.

To stimulate local innovation using SRI/FFS approaches to sustainably improve agricultural productivity and food security in the context of climate change adaptation, and to enhance research capacities to continue to support this development

To increase incomes of smallholder farmers through the development of GI value chains, improved market access and increased recognition of GI by consumers.

The Asian Regional Componente directly addresses the three pillars forming the foundation of the Global Strategy: 1. Establishing a minimum set of core data that countries will disseminate on a regular basis to meet current and emerging demands; 2. Integrating agriculture into national statistical systems in order to meet the requirements of policy makers and other data users that statistical information be linked across the economic, social, and environmental domains ; 3. Fostering the sustainability of the agricultural statistical systems through governance and statistical capacity building.

To conserve biodiversity in Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu and Niue by expanding and consolidating their networks of PAs, building capacity for conservation management and sustainable use of biodiversity and reducing forest and land degradation.

To protect Aquatic resources and stocks, to maintain and enhance biodiversity in the Coral Triangle/South China Sea (SCS) region through application of strategies and technologies for fisheries bycatch management.

To improve health and reduce environmental risk through capacity building for the proper management, and sustainable use, of agricultural and industrial chemicals. Its geographical focus is on the Greater Mekong Subregion.

The project will provide additional staff time in carrying out activities relating to activities in the implementation of the World Food Summit commitments, the Plan of Action and its Rome Declaration which explicitly made references to the importance of polices.