주요컨텐츠
- About
- KREI, a national policy research institute,
has led the development of agriculture,
rural areas, and the food industry as a think tank for agricultural policy.
- REPORTS _
- Planning Consultation Projects for Agricultural Development ...
- 2021.03.30
- JOURNALS _
- Economic Fluctuations and Agricultural Employment: Focusing ...
- 2021.06.21
- FOCUS _
- The Impacts of the COVID-19 on the Korean Agricultural Mark...
- 2020.06.05
- ODA _
- 2020 Global ODA Forum for Sustainable Agricultural Developme...
- 2021.03.18
NEWS
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- KREI opens a website for local discussions on the 2021 U.N. Food Systems Summit
- KREI opens a website for local discussions on the 2021 U.N. Food Systems Summit The Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI) has opened a website to discuss the 2021 U.N. Food Systems Summit. The United Nations plans to host the Food Systems Summit in September this year to improve food systems, which it believes significant to achieve its sustainable development goals (SDGs) to combat poverty, starvation, and climate change by 2030. To encourage various stakeholders to participate in the meeting, the world organization has asked its member nations to prepare domestic discussions. Until now, 95 countries have accepted the U.N,’s proposal. To join the trend, the Korean government selected the KREI President Hong-Sang Kim as convenor to lead domestic discussions and notified the U.N. of his appointment in February this year. Since then, KREI has arranged meetings participated by local producers, consumers, and experts to gather their opinions to establish sustainable food systems. Domestic discussions have three main topics, including food security, sustainable production and consumption, and the right to food. To share information with the public, KREI posts discussion materials and results on its website. It also operates a bulletin board to collect opinions. * Website
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- NRC holds a forum for regulatory changes to prevent farmland speculation
- NRC holds a forum for regulatory changes to prevent farmland speculation The National Research Council for Economics, Humanities, and Social Sciences (NRC) held a form for regulatory changes to prevent farmland speculation on May 21. The convention, sponsored by KREI, the Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements, and the Korea Institute of Public Finance, broadcast live through KREI’s Youtube channel (http://youtube.com/kreipr). As the public outrage rose after it was revealed that Korea’s top housing agency officials used insider information to snap up farmland near where a housing development project was on the horizon, the government announced plans to improve regulations related to farmland acquisition and management. Since then, the government has tried to revamp the whole system. Against this backdrop, the NRC’s forum served as a venue for in-depth discussions to improve farmland regulations, participated by a wide range of experts and officials from national research institutes, the Presidential Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, and Rural Policy, and government agencies.
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- KREI holds a forum to boost rural communities through school revitalization
- KREI holds a forum to boost rural communities through school revitalization KREI held its first field forum to boost rural communities through school revitalization in Namhae-gun, South Kyeongsang Province, on May 13. Rural communities have recently seen their pre-teen and teen populations shrink continuously. As a result, many schools in rural communities are on the verge of closing down. There are voices that cooperation between schools and local communities will be the key to successful rural education. The KREI President Hong-Sang Kim said, “Many rural schools and their communities have worked together to utilize their abundant assets such as rural landscapes. Such innovative movements are in the right direction. We all should participate in discussions to help schools initiate various local activities.”
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- KREI hosts a rural development workshop with three Asian nations
- REI hosts a rural development workshop with three Asian nations KREI hosted an online workshop (via Zoom) with three Asian countries, including the Philippines, Indonesia, and Pakistan, on April 22 to seek ways to create agricultural value chains and develop rural communities. The workshop offered a venue to share the three nations’ significant challenges for rural development and Korea’s agricultural development experiences. Korean organizations, such as MAFRA, the Rural Development Administration, Seoul National University, and Korea University, overseas organizations from the three Asian countries, and Asia Development Bank participated in presentations and discussions.
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- KREI hosts the first meeting for domestic discussion before the U.N. Food Summit
- KREI hosts the first meeting for domestic discussion before the U.N. Food Summit KREI and MAFRA hosted the first meeting to gather opinions of domestic producers, consumers, and experts on March 30 ahead of the U.N. Food Systems Summit scheduled for September. The first discussion for sustainable food systems was held in Seoul, presided by Hong-Sang Kim, the president of KREI. First, David Nabarro, the senior advisor on the Food Systems Summit Dialogues, explained the background of the summit meeting. Then, MAFRA presented plans for local discussions and the Presidential Committee on Agriculture, Fisheries, and Rural Policy introduced the national food plan. Also, the survey results on the public’s recognition of food systems, conducted by KREI and EPIS (Korea Agency of Education, Promotion, and Information Service in Food, Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries) were presented, and agricultural producers, consumers, and various experts shared their views.
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- KREI hosts a discussion on farmers’ employment insurance and labor conditions
- KREI hosts a discussion on farmers’ employment insurance and labor conditions KREI hosted a virtual discussion with the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs on January 27 to share opinions on the application of employment insurance and labor condition improvement in agriculture. The meeting was prepared to listen to views for expanding employment insurance coverage for farmers and identify policy tasks regarding the national roadmap for employment insurance the government announced last year. The first session of the discussion presented experts’ opinions on the feasibility of employment insurance for farmers, the review of related laws along with changes in agricultural employment conditions, and accidental coverages for farmers and labor conditions. In the second session, MAFRA (the Ministry of Agriculture, Food, and Rural Affairs) officials and representatives from the academic, media, and agricultural communities shared opinions on expanding employment insurance in agriculture. They also discussed relevant issues, such as income information, labor verification, and the definition of employment in consideration of characteristics in the farming industry.
Periodicals
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- Agricultural Outlook
- Global and domestic agricultural economic outlook, Introducing the agricultural policy Global and domestic agricultural economic outlook, Introducing the agricultural policy
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- World Agriculture
- Trends in world agriculture and agricultural policy, Summary of agriculture-related overseas news, World agricultural statistics
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- KREI Agricultural Trends in North Korea
- Summary of north korea agricultural trends, Media news release trends, Cooperation and support Results with Korea and international communities
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- Agricultural Trends in China
- Trends in China agricultural policy, agriculture and rural economic trends, Policy resources, China Agricultural Statistics
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- Agriculture and Rural Economic Trends
- Domestic economic trends, agricultural economic trends, Demand and price trends of major agricultural products
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- World Grain Market
- Global grain market trends, relevant information, and major grain agricultural policies
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- Trend of Agricultural Trade with FTA Partners
- Trend in imports and domestic prices of livestock products, fruit, vegetables, and major grains with a focus on FTA partners