The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) will provide $4,270,000 for eight projects in North Korea in 2015, according to a report by Radio Free Asia (RFA).

Three of the eight projects will be mainly funded by Sweden and the EU and are geared towards agriculture, focusing on greenhouses, plastic coverings and potato storage.

The remaining five projects concern food technology, combating foot and mouth disease and bird flu and forest resources.

“The humanitarian organization (in North Korea) has been conducted since 1990s, it was much bigger in the mid-2000’s but decreased since 2008 due to international sanctions,”