WFP plans a survey on food security and nutrition
[February 12 2011]

<P>By Manjula Fernando

<P>World Food Program (WFP) is planning a food security and nutrition survey in the country in March to plan the organisation's food assistance to Sri Lanka in the longer term.

<P>WPF Country Director Adnan Khan said the organization was concerned about the impact of floods on the upcoming Maha harvest and the negative consequences to food security.

<P>The WFP launched a 6-month emergency operation in five of the hardest hit districts in the East and North-Central of the country.
 
<P>Dispatching food items for affected people in Trincomalee, Ampara, Batticaloa, Anuradhapura, and Polonnaruwa have commenced on 4 February
and WFP plans to feed up to 500,000  for the initial 20 days under emergency relief.