1. How does climate change affect women farmers and how can they better adapt to it?
Agriculture is going through a lot of changes worldwide. These changes include positive elements such as industrialization, technology development, and mass production. But it also includes negative elements such as scarcity of natural resources due to climate change. These changes affect not only the agriculture sector but also many other sectors in society.
Cultivation surroundings in farming like weather, water and soil are constantly changing. Agriculture is called ‘The third IT industry’ since production history tracing systems, information exchange and data processing is needed in agriculture as much as other industries need. Coal yard green growth and green technology are at the center of public conversation recently and women farmers’ roles are important to keep the pace of farm products, orchard, vegetables and garden products with consumers’ taste.
The main topics of 21st century are food, environment, culture and safety. The fact that women farmers have main role in food production cannot be overemphasized. The future of value creation of agriculture in suburban areas depends on women farmers. We should be able to develop traditional knowledge, culture, environment, local resources and family farmer resources and make an income out of them to be prepared for the uncertain future.
To make farming a high price industry, we should make it as a fusion life science industry which includes processing, marketing, local and international market information, technology information and ethics information.
Women farmers need to develop their management abilities such as farming techniques as well as consumer friendly marketing to play a role at the center of the third IT industry.
2. Why you think is it important to consider and deal with climate change effects in different productive systems — seeds, natural resources, fisheries, livestock? How can bio-resources be enhanced to avoid the extreme effects of climate change?
Climate is an important factor for crop growth so that it can affect every step of growth. Crops cannot grow well or would show abnormality when drastic climate change appears. Thus climate change has an important role in time of crop growth and the quality of crop which are so called farming ecology. This is the time to focus on developing future farming technology to guarantee the growth power in the future.
Our main task is to set the objects such as support for climate change policy, evaluation and prediction of climate change, and development of coal yard green growth technology. We are now focusing on supporting the policy to reduce the greenhouse gas emission at the national level as well as promoting the new variety adopted to Korean warming and developing the technology with shift in cultivation boundary. Moreover, prevention of insect damage, natural disaster damage reduce, improvement of breeding ground and safety supervision technology development.
Developing the crop cultivation technology for the winter and developing the alternate crops can be the lay out as well as building a policy for reducing green house gas emission. Fruits like mangoes or papayas can be the means for income in the farm.
We need to intensify the policy for the sector of Green manual crops like Milk vetch Hairy vetch which have nitrogenous fertilizer substitution effect. Response for carbon tax using farmland and utilization of changing climate resources are also ways of technology development.
The shifting of the paradigm from preserving the quality of water and soil to reducing the energy consumption is also needed. Utilizing the carbon market as revenue of the farming in the future can be the mean of business using absorption capacity of soil. Alternate energy like biodiesel, geothermal pump production is the basic step to start preparing well for climate change.
Comments are closed