The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization's Bioenergy and Food Security Criteria and Indicators (BEFSCI) Project is planning to complete its "first draft of these principles, criteria and indicators", after two technical consultations scheduled in November 2009 and early 2010. The general framework of objectives will include discussions on the links between bioenergy production and food security, and a preliminary identification of criteria and indicators on sustainable bioenergy production that safeguards food security. The technical consultations will also address/discuss three specific issues: (1) key positive and negative impacts of bioenergy production on food security that should be assessed at the international, national, and project/site levels, (2) indicators that should be used to measure these food security-related impacts of bioenergy production at the international, national, and project-site levels, and (3) alternative qualitative assessment methods be used for bioenergy impacts (on food security) for which an indicator cannot beidentified or measured..