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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)FAO/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. -
No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)FAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA - 25 June 1998 1998
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Extensive floods in 1995 and 1996 coupled with the worst drought in decades in 1997, crippled the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s agriculture and its ability to feed its population. This series of natural disasters came on top of several years of economic slowdown and stagnation, which had already led to falling productivity and production in agriculture and dramatically reduced food availability. An adequate volume of essential inputs could not be supplied (imported or manufactured) to service intensive agriculture, whilst low foreign reserves meant that sufficient food could not be imported to meet the deficit. Consequently the country has had to rely heavily on international food assistance. In view of the fragile food supply prospects and to keep the international community continuously appraised of the situation, a four member FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Korea DPR from 2 - 12 June. The objectives of the Mission were to assess the food situati on as the country enters the lean season and to review early prospects for food grain, harvest of which begins in September/October. The Mission follows an earlier one in October 1997 which warned of a grim food outlook for the country for 1998, with food production expected to cover minimum needs for only 7 months - up to May this year. -
No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)FAO/WFP CROP AND FOOD SUPPLY ASSESSMENT MISSION TO LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC - 4 March 1999 1999
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Following reports of an unfavourable food outlook and at the request of the Government, an FAO/WFP Crop and Food Supply Assessment Mission visited Lao PDR from 19th January to 8th February 1999 to review the outcome of the main 1998 paddy crop, forecast the 1999 irrigated crop, and estimate import requirements including food aid for the 1998/99 marketing year. Consultations were held with the relevant Government ministries, and donor, NGO and UN representations in Vientianne. The focus of the fi eldwork was on selected drought-affected areas, Khammoune, Saravan and Savannakhet Provinces, where the team met with Provincial and District officials, NGOs, farmers, village heads, and merchants, and observed the conditions of the off-season paddy crop, which was being transplanted. The 1998/99 rice production is forecast at about 1.77 million tonnes, 22 percent above the average for the previous five years and moderately higher than last year’s, despite localised dry spells and a sharp reduction in plantings of the upland rice crop. The increase in production is mainly attributed to unusually low levels of flood damage, and a major expansion in the area under (irrigated) off-season paddy.
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