- Develop Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) databases for rice

processing, tea and dairy

- Develop green product criteria and a green product

certification scheme for a selected product category

- Increase consumer awareness on sustainability issues,

use of information and available green product

certification

Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) in Sri Lanka through Facilitating

Access to InformationNational Cleaner Production Centre, Sri Lanka

March 2017 – March 2019

This project seeks to improve sustainability in the agri-food

sector in Sri Lanka through improving access to information

raises awareness on sustainability issues at a national level:

SCP can play an important role to change currentunsustainable practices in Sri Lanka’s agriculture and foodsector. Agriculture in Sri Lanka, utilizing 43% of the total landarea of the country, is one of the key environmental concerns;having a tremendous impact on various issues, from climatechange to soil deterioration. The lack of awareness onsustainable produce among consumers, the lack of standards,limited certification systems at affordable prices and the lackof third party verification have so far hindered the switch toenvironmentally sustainable and healthy practices in theagriculture sector.

Progress towards environmentally sustainable agri-foodsystems in Sri Lanka requires improving the methods forquantitative, integrated assessment, and promoting the useof these methods in different domains. But the shortage ofdata has restricted Sri Lanka in its analysis of a number offood-related challenges and to advance the currently availableapproaches and methods. The project aims to tackle this bydeveloping a methodological framework to improvesustainability in the agri-food sector of Sri Lanka throughimproving access to information.

BACKGROUND

ACTIVITIESOBJECTIVES

ACHIEVEMENTS

CONSUMPTION

SYNERGIES

AWARENESS

NEXT STEPS

1. Strengthening sustainableconsumption drive in thecountry

2. Creating synergies betweenthe Consumer InformationProgramme and GreenPublic Procurement, Eco-innovation, and the SwitchAsia SCP Policy SupportComponent in the country

- Finalise the consumer study based on results from the survey- Host a training on eco-labelling mid 2018- Select one of the three product categories to pursue and

develop the green product certification (mid 2018)

- Developed a certification scheme with green product criteria for a selected agri-food product category so that it can be replicated

- Select two companies to receive technical assistance to receive eco-innovation technical assistance and attain the green product certification

1. Established steering committee and held regular meetings

2. Held a training of trainers on LCI database development (with support from the Life Cycle Initiative)

3. Installed a national LCI database for agri-food products and gathered data on the three sectors (rice processing, tea and dairy subsectors)

4. Conducted a consumer survey

3. Developing green product certification scheme for aselected agri-food product category

LINKhttp://www.oneplanetnetwork.org/initiative/promoting-sustainable-consumption-and-production-scp-sri-lanka-through-facilitating