Agriculture & Food
The fields: barter, debt, and then a world market
From barter, debt and abandoned fields to a top-five global exporter. The transformation was real, and it had specific causes.
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Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
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Investing in Ukrainian agriculture now
The sector has good soil, restored export routes and land that can now be owned. It also has risks that a serious investor prices rather than…
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Carbon, soil and a potential new revenue line
Farming practices that hold carbon in the soil could become a second product sold from the same hectare. Whether they will depends on measurement.
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Rural development beyond agriculture
A village next to highly productive fields can still be emptying. What keeps people in it is not the harvest but the school, the clinic and…
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Ukrainian agriculture and the Common Agricultural Policy
Accession would place a very large agricultural producer inside a budget designed without it. The arithmetic is real and so are the answers to it.
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Who works the land now
Mechanisation removed most agricultural jobs before anyone left the villages. The labour question now is about skills, not numbers.
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Meeting European food standards
A producer wanting to sell food into the European market follows a defined path. It is long, it is documented, and it is the same for…
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Returning farmland to production
Clearing agricultural land is the demining task with the clearest return: a cleared hectare produces a crop every year afterwards.
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Phase two, and legal entities
The second stage of the land market opened purchase to Ukrainian companies. It came with caps, and the caps are the interesting part.
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Tariff rate quotas and the honey deadline problem
A tariff quota that fills in three days is not a safeguard. Understanding how quotas are allocated explains why some Ukrainian exporters plan their year around…
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Crop insurance and the risk nobody wanted to price
Agricultural insurance in Ukraine has existed for years and covers a small fraction of the planted area. The reason is a data problem more than a…
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Grain from Ukraine as humanitarian supply
Some Ukrainian grain has left not as a commercial cargo but as a humanitarian one, purchased by donors and shipped to countries in food crisis.
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