Provision has been made for the Session to continue up to Friday 1 June 2001. The Provisional Agenda for the Twenty-seventh Session has been prepared in consultation with the Chairperson, taking into account the Committee's Terms of Reference, the Committee's recommendations at the previous Sessions and the views of member countries. The Session will be addressed by the Director-General or his Representative. The Committee is open to all Member Nations of the Organization and all states which are members of the United Nations. It is composed of those states which notify the Director-General in writing of their desire to become members of the Committee and of their intention to participate in its work.
Membership is for the biennium.
The Secretariat will circulate a list of members of the Committee for the biennium 2000-2001 at the opening of the Session. Under this item the Committee will consider the current world food security situation, including trends and prospects. Since then it has been decided that a Standing Item on Nutrition would be included on the CFS agenda every other year, alternating with a review of the progress in the Implementation of the WFS Plan of Action. The Committee will consider this issue on the basis of a review of selected success stories representing different types of community-based experiences that led to the adoption of improved technologies and practices relevant to food security and that had visible positive impact on the target beneficiaries. The review will conclude with a summary of lessons learned from these cases, and recommendations for follow-up action that could extend these successful experiences more widely.