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Country experience: Roadmap for the agriculture sector in the Republic of KoreaBog'liq 34. FS-Green-TechnologyCountry experience: Roadmap for the agriculture sector in the Republic of Korea
The Korean Government has already started adapting its agriculture sector in the face of a changing climate.
The adaptation strategy was charted in a roadmap for 2030 designed in three phases: short-term base build-up
phase (2010–2013), mid-term take-off phase (2014–2019) and long-term settlement phase (2020–2030). Each
phase covers seven categories, and a total of 19 adaptation measures listed below:
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R&D
– breeding, production technology development, base technology development, resource
management innovation and climate information system
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Infrastructure management
– farmland management, agricultural water management and agricultural
facility management
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Economic means
– provision of grants
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Legal and institutional improvement
– insurance system expansion, resource management system set-up
and regional plans
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Human resource training and education
– training, education and public relations
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Monitoring
– assessment of adaptation and vulnerability
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Technology and management applicable to farm households
– production technology management,
soil management, water management and farm household finance management.
Not all the measures apply to all of the three phases, but many do. The three measures included in the infrastruc
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ture management category, constitute the main tasks in all phases. In the economic category, the low-carbon
grant is critical in the base build-up phase but it should continue as well. In the legal and institutional improve
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ment category, the agricultural disaster insurance system needs to be carried on continuously so that it can be
established securely. Public relations and education should also be continued in order to establish a consensus
on adaptation to climate change. In the monitoring category, the tasks for developing a model to make
medium- and long-term forecasts of the world food demand and supply should also be kept up in each phase.
And in the category of technology and management applicable to farm households, R&D programmes should
be present in each phase to promote new, green technologies.
Source: Chang-Gil Kim,
The Impact of Climate Change on the Agricultural Sector: Implications of the Agro-Industry for Low Carbon, Green
Growth Strategy and Roadmap for the East Asian Region
, Consultant Report (Bangkok, UNESCAP, 2011).
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