South Korea is the only country that has switched its statue from a recipient of aid to a donor country that offers aid. After joined OECD/DAC in 2009, other countries are growing interest about ODA of Korea. In particular, food & agriculture cooperation initiative which is multilateral ODA of RDA in Korea is differentiated bilateral ODA. Therefore, other countries was growing interset about performance of ‘food & agriculture cooperation initiative’ Accordingly, purpose of this study is to find out the recipient countries economic effects of ‘Water management of rce project’ and ‘Cacao project’ among 3 project that are bring worked on by ‘Korea-Latin America Food & Agriculture Cooperation Initiative(KoLFACI)’ established in 2014. The best result obtained from KoLFACI projects was that project performance was significantly great despite small scale of budget invested. Economic ripple effect of water management of rice project was estimated as approximately USD 20,014,377 for upcoming 9 years in Peru and USD 6,081,463 for upcoming 9 years in Colombia. In Guatemala, economic ripple effect of training activities via cacao project was estimated USD 27,258 for project period(4 years). Also, the effect of fermentation and dry technology about Cacao in Colombia presume result. Estimation result, fermentation and dry technology effect was estimated USD 2,177,152 in Colombia upcoming 9 years. It means that KoLFACI project was technology development and distribution-centered, small scaled project with annual USD 20,000 ~ 30,000 budget, of which economic ripple effect was great in terms of low cost and high efficiency ODA project. We will search for ongoing methods that contribute to the role expansion of Korea and the agricultural development of the recipient country will be needed through the expansion and complementation of a low-cost and high efficiency ODA project such as the KoLFACI project.

The purpose of this study is to find out the economic impacts of the CASSAVA project, IPM project, Post-Harvest project, and RICE project among 12 projects that are being worked on by the Asian Food & Agriculture Cooperation Initiative(AFACI) established in 2009. Reliable data such as FAO STAT etc. was utilized for the analysis on the economic impacts of each project and the data of an investigation on principal investigators of the nation who participate in each project was used for the analysis of the additional necessary information. According to the economic impacts analysis result, the economic impacts will occur and can be measured as an economic costs as follows: a total of $1,187,404 in Thailand for the next 19 years through the CASSAVA project, $2,358,299 in Indonesia for the next 18 years through the Post-Harvest project, $62,451,317 in Vietnam for the next 13 years through the Post- Harvest project and $60,629,555 in Nepal for the next 13 years through the RICE project. The AFACI project is a small project that annually supports each country that participates each project with approximately $ 10,000. Despite the small-scale project, the estimated result of economic impacts showed that great economic impacts occurred for its scale of the support. Thus, it is deemed that a search for ongoing methods that contribute to the role expansion of Korea and the agricultural development of the recipient country will be needed through the expansion and complementation of a low-cost and high efficiency Official Development Assistance(ODA) such as the AFACI project.

본 연구에서는 국내 농산물 중 주요 채소(9개 품목)에 대한세계 속에서 한국 농업의 위치를 파악함으로써 개방화시대에 국내 농업현장에서 경쟁력 제고를 위한 방안마련의 기초자료를 제공하고자 하였으며, 이를 위하여 품목별 국제경쟁력(RCA, RC, 수출비율지수), 국내시장에서 수입품과의 경쟁력(역RCA, 수입품 국내시장점유율) 및 경쟁국 수입품과의 가격경쟁력을 비교분석하였다.16) 더불어 농산물 유통전문가 설문분석을 통하여 질적인 경쟁력수준을 분석하였다. 분석결과 조사대상 품목 대부분의 수출경쟁력은 매우 취약하였으며, 특히, 2010년 RCA지수는 마늘이 0.004, 양파 0.0238, 멜론 0.1060, 고추(건고추) 0.3637 등으로 비교우위를나타낼 수 있는 수치인 1보다 현격히 낮아 수출경쟁력의 어려움을 보여주고 있다. 그러나 조사대상 품목 중 착색단고추(파프리카)는 일본시장에서 수출경쟁력을 나타내는 것으로 분석되었다. 가격경쟁력은 일본 등 일부국가를 제외하고는 경쟁력이 약한 것으로 분석되었으며, 가격비교에 있어서 관세가 포함될 경우에는 고율의 관세가 부과되는 마늘, 고추(건고추) 등에서는 국내시장에서 수입품과의 경쟁력을 나타낼 수 있는 것으로 나타나고 있다. 농산물 전문 유통인들을 대상으로 한 품질경쟁력 설문조사 결과 국내 채소의 전반적인 품질경쟁력은 우수한 것으로 조사되었으며, 과중, 과형, 색깔, 당도, 육질 등 부문별 품질수준에서도 높게 평가받는 것으로 나타났다. 특히, 국산 딸기의 경우 과중, 색깔, 향기 등에 있어 조사대상 품목 중 가장 높은 평가를 받았으며, 파프리카는 당도와 육질에서 가장 높게 평가되었다. 국내 농산물이 국제경쟁력을 갖추기 위한 최우선 고려사항으로는 고품질 브랜드화를 최우선 과제로 지적하고 있으며, 다음으로 신품종 개발, 생산비 절감을 통한 가격경쟁력 제고, 유통구조 합리화 등을 지적하였다. 더불어 보다 현실적 대안으로써 품목특성에 따른 유통단계의 차별화, 즉, 국내산 유통 단계와 수입산 유통단계를 달리 시도하는 방안을 강구함으로써 국민의 식생활 안전성을 지키는 방안도 모색할 필요가 있을 것으로 판단된다. 결과적으로 국내 채소류의 경우 FTA 등 수입개방의 확대 속에서 가격경쟁을 통한 경쟁력 확보에는 한계가 따르는 것으로 분석되고 있어 차별화된 품질향상 등 품질경쟁력 제고를 통한 경쟁력 확보 방안에 주력하는 것이 우리 농업의 유지·발전을 위한 최선의 방안이 될 것으로 판단된다.

This study aimed to analyze socioeconomic effect of eco-friendly free school food supply system by Seoul, which has been consistently extended since 2011. To do so, effect of eco-friendly free school food supply system on the beneficiaries, Seoul citizens, was analyzed by using ‘labor & income panel’, while that on rural society was analyzed by using the surveys on the eco-friendly agricultural product supply performance by the ‘Eco-friendly Agricultural Products Retail Center’ as well as for students, school parents, nutrition teachers and nutritionists. The results of analysis showed that eco-friendly school food supply system contributes to income redistribution among the Seoul citizens to a certain extent, provides the eco-friendly agricultural product producers in the rural society with the stable market, and positively influences them to secure stable incomes. In addition, eco-friendly free school food reduced the amount of carbon emissions through the use of environmentally friendly agricultural products resulting in environmental improvements and economic benefits. Considering such effects, free school food supply using the eco-friendly agricultural products needs to be consistently maintained in the future without politic change by political ideology and to be extended to middle school level in medium and short-term.