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No Thumbnail AvailableTechnical reportFAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF KOREA - 25 November 1997 1997
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No results found.Since 1995 Korea DPR has suffered a number of natural disasters which have seriously impeded the capacity of the country to feed its people. In the aftermath of floods in 1996, the country received an unprecedented amount of food assistance through the international community without which undoubtedly the emergence of nutritional and health problems would have been far more widespread within the population. Notwithstanding the importance of such food assistance as a short term measure it is vita l that the country address means by which future, and sustainable, food security can be more assured. In this regard the performance of the economy and its ability to generate productive employment and vital foreign exchange for purchase of essential inputs and raw materials, for agriculture and food imports in shortfall years, will be essential to any lasting strategy. Following an interim assessment of this year’s drought in August, an FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Korea DPR from 21 October to 4 November to assess this year’s final harvest and evaluate food supply prospects for the 1997/98 marketing year. In making its assessment the mission held discussions with key Government departments, UN agencies and NGOs and made field assessment visits to main agricultural areas, including North and South Hwangae Province, South Pyongan province and Kangwon Province. In addition, to assess food distribution and supply the mission made a number of visits, some rand om, to individual households in urban and rural areas, grain stores and public distribution outlets and schools and nurseries. -
No Thumbnail AvailableTechnical reportFAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA - 3 June 1997 1997
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No results found.Devastating floods in both 1995 and 1996 dealt a serious blow to the country’s agriculture further constraining its ability to feed its population. The devastation came on top of several years of economic slowdown, which had already led to falling agricultural productivity and declining food production in Korea DPR. Given the limited commercial import capacity of the country, this has resulted in reduced food consumption, most dramatically in the last two years, with serious impact on the health of the population. Moreover, although widespread starvation has been largely avoided through the Public (Food) Distribution system (PDS), which has at least provided the barest minimum for survival, the system is now on the verge of collapse with no alternative mechanism available to provide food. In addition, various coping mechanisms, which were helpful in supplementing food intake over short periods, are now becoming increasingly strained and non-viable in ensuring minimum dietary needs. A g rave food security situation is, therefore, developing in all parts of the country. In view of the rapidly deteriorating food situation, an FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission was fielded to Korea DPR from 17 to 24 May. The main objectives of the mission were to assess the prevailing food supply situation and review early prospects for 1997 food grain production. This mission followed an earlier FAO/WFP assessment last November and based its evaluation on discussions with Gover nment Ministries and Departments, UN, bilateral agencies and NGOs in the country and on field visits to randomly selected areas. These include locations in the counties of Kumchon, Pyongsan and Sunchon in South Hwanghae and South Pyongan provinces, in agriculturally important south/west parts of the country, and Tongsin and Songwon counties in the northern province of Chagang. -
No Thumbnail AvailableTechnical reportFAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA - 12 November 1998 1998
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The combination of economic decline and natural disasters in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea since 1995, have seriously compromised national food security. Although the unprecedented volume of food aid and international assistance for agriculture recovery has undoubtedly helped ease the situation, the country still faces a precarious food outlook. An earlier FAO/WFP mid-season assessment of crop and food prospects in June warned that even under favourable weather conditions, chro nic shortages of essential agricultural inputs would compromise food production this year leaving the country with a large food deficit. In addition, the severity of economic problems facing the country and its seriously reduced capacity to import food commercially meant that a large part of the deficit would need to be covered by food assistance.
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