A general mobilization movement for land management is launched every year, with all people involved.

With watershed managed on a proper basis, agro-ecological environment is improved and the safety of communities ensured.

Kim Kwang Ju, section chief of the Ministry of Land and Environmental Conservation, told KCNA:

"The Ministry applies agro-forestry management technology to conserve ecosystem.

It sponsored national seminars on several occasions to arouse public interest in prevention of land corrasion.

It published a book on agro-forestry management technology while training experts.

The work for land management enjoys cooperation from international organizations.

The European Union is cooperating with the DPRK for the rational management of sloping lands.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) had already given technological cooperation for watershed management in mountains and plains. It is now helping apply land management technology, including the introduction of conservation farming.

Meanwhile, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation in the DPRK has offered the technology of drawing water in sloping lands.

The DPRK is a signatory to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification."