Agriculture & Food
The corridor Ukraine ran itself
When the negotiated arrangement lapsed, Ukraine established an export route on its own terms. That it worked commercially is the remarkable part.
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Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
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Ukraine and the global food supply
When Ukrainian grain stops moving, the effect is not felt in Europe. It is felt in North Africa, the Middle East and East Africa, where the…
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Overland export and the neighbours
When the sea closed, grain went west by rail and road through four countries. The route worked, and it produced frictions that were entirely predictable.
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The grain corridor: how the Istanbul arrangement works and what it does not cover
Three ports reopened under a monitored corridor with a joint coordination centre. The first vessel sailed this week. For anyone in the grain trade, the operational…
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The Black Sea Grain Initiative
The grain corridor is remembered as a diplomatic achievement. It was also a shipping operation with an inspection regime, and the logistics were as difficult as…
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Irrigation in the south, before and after
Southern Ukraine farmed with irrigation built decades ago. Much of it is now gone, and what replaces it will determine what the region grows.
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Financing a season
A farm spends everything in spring and earns everything in autumn. The gap between those two facts is the whole of agricultural finance.
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Processing: adding value at home
Exporting wheat earns a commodity price. Exporting flour, oil or confectionery earns that price plus the margin someone else is currently taking.
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The farmland market opens: the first weeks, and the real constraint
After nineteen years of moratorium, Ukrainian citizens can buy agricultural land from 1 July. Prices are settling at a fraction of comparable EU levels, and the…
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Fruit, berries and the shift up the value chain
Grain is sold by the tonne to a global market. Berries are sold by the punnet to a buyer who cares about the variety, the sugar…
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The world's agricultural giant opens its land market: what it means for suppliers
The 2021 opening changed the economics of Ukrainian farming more than any subsidy could have. For input suppliers, equipment vendors and agricultural financiers, the practical consequences…
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Keeping the soil that everything depends on
Ukraine's black earth is the asset behind the entire agricultural sector, and it is being depleted by the way that sector currently operates.
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