FiBL project The Estabof a Competence Centre for Organic Agriculture, DPR of Korea

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FiBL project

Title	The Establishment of a Competence Centre for Organic and Sustainable Agriculture, DPR of Korea
FiBL project number	65080
Abstract	The project’s overall objective is to contribute to food security through sustainable agriculture production in DPR Korea by applying enhanced organic technologies. The specific objective is to establish a competence centre on organic agriculture for research and training purposes to introduce and disseminate OA technologies. The project is building capacities of Korean and technical staff and institutions to enable them to initiate contacts with non-Korean institutions and update their technical knowledge in order to strengthen their capacity to address the food security problems by their own national means: To gain theoretical and practical knowledge, one farm unit will be converted to organic agriculture, serving as model farm. A Korean expert team will be available that is familiar with organic agriculture technologies and qualified to run a competence centre and be able to provide expertise/training on organic agriculture. An on-farm research concept that was developed and implemented already has initial scientific results on the application of organic agriculture technologies in DPRK. The competence centre will be established to disseminate organic agriculture technology know-how.
Detailed Description
Project status	completed
Start of project	01.04.2011
End of project	31.07.2014
FiBL project leader/ contact	Baumgart Lukas (Department of Socio-Economic Sciences)
FiBL project staff	Huber Beate (Department of International Cooperation, Deputy directors) Lichtenhahn Martin Meili Eric (Department of Livestock Sciences) Wilbois Klaus-Peter
Research area	Policy & sector development (Department of International Cooperation)
Themes	Asia Food security Policy development Sector development
Date modified	31.03.2016