Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa has left the country for Rome to attend a high-level conference on world food security. President Rajapaksa is to participate in the High-Level Conference on World Food Security and the Challenges of Climate Change and Bioenergy to be held in Rome, Italy from June 3-5, 2008 on an invitation from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The High-Level Conference, open only to the invited participants will address food security and poverty reduction in the face of climate change and energy security. The Conference will focus on how agriculture can continue to produce adequate quantities of food for the world's growing population, in changing climatic conditions and address the specific challenges from climate and bioenergy for the food, agriculture, and forestry and fisheries sectors. President of Italy, the UN Secretary General, the Director-General of the FAO and the Secretary of State of the Holy See on behalf of his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI will deliver the inaugural speeches.