23.04.2021| According to the results of the Information Field Analysis on Agroindustrial Complex, produced by the Consulting Agency “NOKS FISHES”, the highest professional activity in Facebook was recorded by the Coordinator of the UaFoodTrade Project Oleg Nivyevskyi (82% of the total professional contents, 80% of the total reactions number)
21.04.2021| Oleg Nivievskyi commented on sunflower seed export ban. Full text.
15.04.2021| Roman Neyter participated in the seminar “International Migration from Ukraine: Will Trends Increase or Go into Reverse?” given by Dr. Hanna Vakhitova, at KSE.
14.04.2020| Pavlo Martyshev published the article in Agro Portal about the cost of preparing the Easter basket.
2.04.2021| Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the UNIAN Press conference on introduction of quotes for import of fertilizes through court. The Press conference was organized by PU “Ukrainian National Agrarian Forum”.
25.03.2021| Roman Neyter joined the online lecture “The effect of expatriate CEOs on firm behavior” by Prof. Telegdy Álmos.
19.03.2021| Oleg Nivievskyi gave an interview for Ukrainian TV Chanel 4 on the Land Reformand Land Bills 2194 and 2195 that are under consideration in the Verhovna Rada of Ukraine. Recording of the interview.
18.03.2021| Roman Neyter, Oleksandr Donchenko took part in the seminar by Dr. Sören Prehn (IAMO, Germany) who presented “Minimum variance hedging: Levels versus first differences”.
6.02.2021| Oleg Nivievskyi, Pavlo Yavorskyi, Oleksandr Donchenko produced the study on Assessing the Role of Small Farmers and Households in Agriculture and Rural Economy and Measures to Support their Sustainable Development.
3.02.2021| Oleg Nivievskyi spoke on the role and features of the forward contracts in agricultural sector at the round table discussion: The Future of the Forward Contracts in Ukraine” organized by Ukrainian Grain Association.
28.01.2021| Oleg Nivievsky participatedin KSE Open House panel discussion.
16.12.2020| Pavlo Martyshev published the article in AgroPortal about the Russian salad’s index.
28.11. 2020| Dr.O.Nivievskyi publishe
26.11. 2020| Oleg Nivievskyi and Roman Neyter gave a keynote speech on the economic effect of the pre-emptive right on farmland sales. The results of the study were discussed with the Chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Agrarian and Land Policy Mykola Solsky, Deputy Minister at Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine Taras Vysotskyi, ex-head of the State GeoCadastre Denys Bashlyk and moderated by the ex-Acting Minister of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture Pavlo Kukhta. The recordings of the session.
26.11. 2020| Oleg Nivievskyi and Roman Neyter prepared a policy note.
UaFoodTrade Project members Oleg Nivievskyi and Roman Neyter published a report based on the preliminary ex-ante modelling of the economic effect of the pre-emptive right on the farmland sales. According to the analysis, the enhancement of the pre-emptive right results in decrease of the landowners’ earnings, increasing the expected gain of the current tenants and has a net positive result on the Ukrainian economy. You can read the full report.
19.11. 2020| Roman Neyter participated in the workshop “Who Trusts State-Run Media? Source Cues, Bias, and Credibility in Non-Democracies” by Dr. Anton Shirikov
11.11.2020| Dr. O. Nivievskyi outlined advantages and disadvantages of the State Agrarian Register for agricultural producers in his interview for TV Channel “Pershyi Dilovyy”.
4.11.2020| Dr. O. Nivievskyi took part in the online round table discussion “How to stimulate growth and diversification of Ukrainian agriculture”
20.10.2020| Pavlo Martyshev defended the dissertation for the Candidate of Economic Sciences degree. The dissertation topic is «Regulation of the development of agri-food production under the conditions of increased world prices volatility». The defense took place in the State institution «Institute of Economics and Forecasting of NAS of Ukraine», Kyiv
23-25.09.2020| Oleksandr Donchenko participated in GEWISOLA Сonference 2020.
22.09.2020| During the jointly organized by KSE and IAMO Summer school IV “Applied Time Series Analysis in Agricultural and Food Markets” the PhD students of the UaFood Trade project Roman Neyter presented his research devoted to the effect of informal rental land market on the farmland prices.
16.09.2020| Pavlo Martyshev presented the topic of his PhD thesis «Economic reforms and Ukraine’s agriculture: the selected essays» within the framework of the 4th PhD Summer School in Agricultural Economics «Applied Time Series Analysis in Agricultural and Food Markets».
14-25.09.2020| PhD students Pavlo Martyshev, Roman Neyter and Oleksandr Donchenko participated in The German-Ukrainian Agricultural Economics Summer School IV “Time Series Analysis in Agricultural and Food Markets”
14-25.09.2020| Online German – Ukrainian Summer School IV in Agricultural Economics. Course «Applied Time Series Analysis in Agricultural and Food Markets».
The online PhD Summer in Agricultural Economics IV continued the work of previous Summer School for PhD students in online format with the course “Applied Time Series Analysis in Agricultural and Food Markets”. This course is a part of the Summer School for PhD.students in Agricultural Economics. During the work of the online Summer School participants joined 12 sessions of Prof. Bernhard Brümmer (University of Göttingen, Germany) and Prof. Jens-Peter Loy (Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany) who delivered the course «Applied Time Series Analysis in Agricultural and Food Markets» and 2 Invited lectures of Dr. Sören Prehn, PD. Dr.habil. Linde Götz Prof. Hernan Tejada Dr. Tinoush Jaghdani (IAMO, Germany).
Participants took part in the 5 Group Work Sessions where PhD students of UaFood Trade presented their research papers.
On 23-25 September 2020 Ukrainian PhD students individually took part in the GEWISOLA Annual Conference 2020).
This online German-Ukrainian Summer School was organized by Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle, Germany, Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Kyiv, Ukraine in cooperation with Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of of the Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany, and Department of Agricultural Economics of Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Germany in frames of the UaFood Trade Pilot Project. The course was held from 14th to 25th September 2020 as an online event and was funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
7-11.09.2020| PhD students Pavlo Martyshev, Roman Neyter and Oleksandr Donchenko participated in The PhD Summer School in Agricultural Economics III “Efficiency and Productivity Analysis 1 – Stochastic Approaches”.
7-11.09.2020| Agricultural Economics Summer School for Doctoral Students as online event
07 – 11 September 2020 – As a part of the 3rd Agricultural Economics Summer School for Doctoral Students, a course entitled “Efficiency and Productivity Analysis 1 – Stochastic Approaches” takes place. The course will be held from 7th to 11th September 2020 as online event and is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Due to the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) and travel restrictions this year, the summer school will take place from 7 to 11 September 2020 in a new format as an online event. The course “Efficiency and Productivity Analysis 1 – Stochastic Approaches” is a main part of the online summer school and is aimed at doctoral and master students of agricultural economics or related fields.
Participants from the Ukrainian universities in Kyiv, Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Poltava, Vinnytsia, Sumy, Mykolaiv, Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk, Melitopol, the Slovakian Agricultural University in Nitra and the German Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg will get together on the webinar platform and participate in the online lectures and practical courses of Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer (University of Göttingen, Germany).
The Ukrainian-German online summer school is organised by the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Kyiv, Ukraine, the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle, Germany, in close cooperation with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the Georg-August University Göttingen, Germany, as part of the pilot project UaFoodTrade.
21.08.2020| Pavlo Martyshev and Volodymyr Vakhitov published an article «Ukraine: granary or desert?» in CANactions Magazine Edition 02 «LAND | Земля».
5.08.2020| Announcement about Online Ukrainian-German Agricultural Economics Summer School III for the course «Efficiency and Productivity Analysis 1 – Stochastic Approaches» funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
The course will be held online from 7 to 11 September 2020 by Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Kyiv, Ukraine and Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany in the format of Online Summer School.
The Summer school is aimed at PhD and Master’s students in agricultural economics or related fields.
This course is organized by Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Kyiv, Ukraine, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle, Germany in cooperation with Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the University of Göttingen, Germany in frames of the UaFood Trade Pilot Project.
The deadline for applications is August 31, 2020
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer (University of Göttingen,Germany)
Language of school is English.
Participation is free.
Here you can find further information about Online Summer School
Online applications (in English language) should be submitted through Online Application Form.
For online submission, visit the website https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/OnlinePhDSummerSchool-III
For more information, please go UaFoodTrade Project page or contact Ms. Valentyna Marusiak [email protected]
26.06.2020| Oleksnadr Donchenko presented his research “Effects of the Russian agricultural import ban on domestic fresh apple market in Ukraine” on the IAMO’s Forum “Digital transformation – towards sustainable food value chains in Eurasia”
25.06.2020| PhD students of the UaFoodTrade project Roman Neyter presented his research devoted to the effect of informal rental land market on the farmland prices on the IAMO Forum 2020 “Digital transformation – towards sustainable food value chains in Eurasia ” .
25.06.2020| Pavlo Martyshev was a participant at the IAMO Forum 2020 and gave the presentation entitled «The effect of crop profitability
on land rental prices».
4.06.2020| Oleg Nivievskyi and Roman Neyter published an article devoted to the problem of the state-owned land supervision. According to the authors, the amount of state-owned land in recent years shrank by more than 30%, and while approximately half of this land was transferred to communal ownership – approximately 14% of state-owned land was privatized. Authors question the transparency of the privatization process and provide empirical evidence of suspiciousness of at least some of land transfers to private ownership. The full text of the article.
15.05.2020| Pavlo Martyshev (with Sofia Dunets) presented the research «Formation of inflation expectations and second-round effect from food prices in Ukraine» on NBU Conference for students and young researchers «Banking Sector and Monetary Policy: Future Prospects» and took second place.
12.05.2020| Announcement about Ukrainian-German Agricultural Economics Summer School in Kyiv III for the course «Efficiency and Productivity Analysis 1 – Stochastic Approaches» funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
The course will be held from 7th to 11th of September 2020 in Kyiv, KSE. The Summer school is aimed at PhD and Master’s students in agricultural economics or related fields. This course is organized by Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Kyiv, Ukraine, Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle, Germany in cooperation with Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the University of Göttingen, Germany in frames of the UaFood Trade Pilot Project.
The deadline for applications is June 15, 2020
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer (University of Göttingen,Germany).
| Language of school is English.
Participation is free. The participants cover their travel and accommodation costs themselves. |
Here you can find further information about the Summer School
| Online applications (in English language) should be submitted through Online Application Form.
For online submission, visit the website. |
For more information, please go UaFoodTrade Project page or contact Ms. Valentyna Marusiak [email protected]
9.04.2020| PhD students of the UaFoodTrade project Roman Neyter presented his research devoted to the effect of informal rental land market on the farmland prices at Kyiv School of Economics’ research seminar.
31.03.2020| Oleg Nivievskyi and Roman Neyter published the blog on the effect of the starting price on the final price on the Ukrainian’s online land auction. In this column, authors are discussing the current proposed design for the land market in Ukraine and weak points of the land auctions. Authors propose a set of measures, based on the lessons of the land auctions to improve the efficiency of the state and communal-owned land redistribution. More details here
30.03.2020| UaFoodTrade Project PhD Student Roman Neyter published a column on the businesses that are in the risk zone due to the crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak. This column is based on his study that is dedicated to the effect of subsidies on farms’ exit decisions and not only covers the effect of governmental support on the potential shutdowns, but also explores non-efficient practices of supporting the businesses, based on the previous programs of support in Ukrainian agriculture. More details here
26.02.2020| Announcement about German-Ukrainian Agricultural Economics Summer School in Germany II for the course «Time Series Analysis in Agricultural and Food Markets» funded by DAAD through funds of the German Federal Foreign Office (AA).
The course will be held from 13th to 26th of September 2020 in Germany. The summer school is aimed at PhD and master’s students in agricultural economics or related fields. This course is organized by Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle, Germany, Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Kyiv, Ukraine in cooperation with Martin Luther University Halle – Wittenberg (MLU), Christian Albrecht University of Kiel, Germany and Georg August University of Göttingen, Germany in frames of the UaFood Trade Pilot Project.
The deadline for applications is April 30, 2020
Lecturers: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Brümmer (University of Göttingen), Prof. Dr. Jens-Peter Loy (University of Kiel), Dr. Oleksandr Perekhozhuk (IAMO).
Language of school is English. Participation is free. Travel and accommodation expenses will be (partly) covered by DAAD scholarship.
Here you can find further information about the Summer School
Online applications (in English language) should be submitted through Online Application Form. For online submission, visit the website https://www.surveymonkey.de/r/NP69PSJ
For more information, please go UaFoodTrade Project page or contact Ms. Valentyna Marusiak [email protected]
4.12.2019| Dr. Nivievskyi gave a speech on political discussions on the agricultural land market to the deputies of the Parliament of Ukraine – Verkhovna Rada
28-29.11. 2019| Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany, Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Kyiv, Ukraine in frames of UaFoodTrade Pilot Project organized the Research Workshop “Modern Research in Agricultural Economics: From Research Idea to Publication”. The goal of the workshop was to help researchers from Ukraine understand and better adjust to the standards of research and publication, which are widely accepted and followed in modern academic journals. 17 participants from FAO, IAMO, KSE, Ukrainian universities (National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Sumy National Agrarian University, Zhytomyr National Agroecology University, Poltava State Agrarian Academy, Vinnytsia Institute of Trade and Economics, Prydneprovska State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Kyiv National Economic University named after Vadym Hetman) and Space Research Institute NASA-SSAU presented their research papers during 5 academic sessions of 2-day workshop at KSE.
2.11.2019| KSE accepted delegation from the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) headed by State Secretary Thomas Rachel. At the meeting Academic Director Olesia Verchenko presented KSE strategy and objectives. Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi reported about the work of the UaFood Project at KSE.
23.09.2019 | Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Germany, Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Kyiv, Ukraine, UaFoodTrade Pilot Project organize the Workshop “Modern Research In Agricultural Economics: From Research Idea to Publication” which will take place on 28-29 November 2019 in Kyiv (Ukraine). Details about participation and extended abstracts submission are in the Announcement.
22.09.2019|Lviv, Book Publishers’ Forum. Volodymyr Vakhitov took part in the panel “Why Urban Policy Makers do not take into account modern literature in Urban Studies”.
20.09.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi gave lectures on Economics of reduced VAT rate and On Farmland Market and Moratorium in the framework of information days of the National Bank of Ukraine in regions «Economic express» in Odesa.
20.09.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi took part in the TV late night show “Svoboda Slova” (“Free Speech”) on ICTV TV channel. Topic: farmland market.
6.09.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi: Interview to Deutche Welle on Farmland sales market and moratorium in Ukraine.
3-5.09.2019| Volodymyr Vakhitov took part in the International Workshop on Digital Humanities Studies, together with Ukrainian Catholic University and Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, where he presented the joint paper with Pavlo Martyshev “Land Price Convergence in Ukraine: Raion Level data, 2001-2016” and a short presentation “Using GeoDa for Spatial Exploratory Data Analysis”.
23.08.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi (with Roman Koshovnyk) published the article “Farmland market. What is the price of (in)efficient land governance institutions in Ukraine” for Economic Pravda.
20.08.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi published a blog on «How will the farmland market function» at KSE webpage.
29.07.2019 – 3.08.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi took part in a weekly training (as a moderator) of newly elected Members of the Parliament from the Servants of People Party in Truskavets, organized by Kyiv School of Economics.
4-5.07.2019|Volodymyr Vakhitov took part in 25th International Panel Data Conference where he presented the paper “Productivity effects of Negative Clusters”.
26-28.06.2019 | IAMO Forum 2019. UaFood Trade PhD students presented their research at the IAMO Forum 2019, Halle (Saale), Germany.
Roman Neyter participated in the session on Agricultural Policies and Farm Resilience. Pavlo Martyshev and Oleksandr Donchenko presented their research at the session Markets and Trade. The conference is an excellent opportunity to meet the outstanding representatives of agrarian economy and get professional advice, comments from the colleagues.
26.06.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi (with Solomiya Brychka) published the article “Drivers of agricultural competitiveness in Ukraine” at Liga.net Business journal.
24.06.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi (with Olha Halytsia) published the article “Moratorium on Farmland Sales: what is the price of a delay” in Economic Pravda.
21.06.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi (with Solomiya Brychka) published the article “What holds back agricultural productivity in Ukraine” in Dzerkalo Tyzhnia.
13.06.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi was talking to Ukrainian journalists on agricultural state support and farmland market in Ukraine in the framework of the program «Economics, market and data analysis» at the Center of Excellenceat KSE.
31.05.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the TV debate on Farmland market in Ukraine. TV channel ATR.
31.05.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the Grain&Maritimes Days conference in Odesa on Infrastructure and logistics issues: role and prospects of the Azov Sea ports of Ukraine VS global cases.
28-31.05.2019 | III PhD Summer School in Agricultural Economics, course “Scientific Writing for Agricultural Economists. This course is a part of the Summer School for Ph.D. Students in Agricultural Economics, organized as the pilot project on the sustainable internationalization of Ukraine’s research institutions in the context of the globalization of the Ukrainian agro-food sector (UaFoodTrade) by Kyiv School of Economics and Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Development in Transition Economies in cooperation with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the University of Goettingen, Germany.
Participants from Agrarian Universities of Zhytomyr, Dnipro, Vinnytsia, Kyiv and Melitopol attended the course by Prof. Dr. Stefan von Cramon-Taubadel who uncovered secrets, aspects and methods of a successful scientific paper.
30.05.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the jury for Agripolitical debates of students at Kharkiv National Agrarian University.
29.05.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi presented a draft paper on Tax Revenue Potential of Local Governments in the framework of the Policy Seminar series at Kyiv School of Economics
22-24.05.2019|Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the German-Ukrainian workshop on «Agriculture and Society: multilateral dialogue for a sustainable development» and made two key-note speeches on Farmland market in Ukraine and on Agricultural state support in Ukraine. The workshop took place at the Zhytomyr National Agroecological University in Ukraine.
14.05.2019| Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the TV debate on Farmland market in Ukraine. TV channel Hromadske.
8.05.2019 | Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the TV debate on Farmland market in Ukraine. TV channel UA: Kyiv.
23.04.2019| Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the panel discussion on Farmland market in Ukraine in the framework of the conference «Efficient Land Governance in Ukraine» organized by the World Bank and European Commission in Lviv.
15.04.2019 | Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the panel discussion on sources of economic growth in Ukraine at the Ukrainian Crisis Media Center.
11.04.2019 | Announcing about PhD Summer School for the course «Writing scientific works for Agricultural Economics», which will be held on May 28-31, 2019 at Kyiv School of Economics. The deadline for applications is May 14, 2019. This course is part of the Summer School for Ph.D. Students in Agricultural Economics, organized as the pilot project on the sustainable internationalization of Ukraine’s research institutions in the context of the globalization of the Ukrainian agro-food sector (UaFoodTrade) by Kyiv School of Economics) and Leibniz Institute for Agricultural Development in Transition Economies in cooperation with the Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development of the University of Goettingen, Germany.
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Stefan von Cramon-Taubadel. Language of school is English, participation is free. The cost of housing and road is covered by students.
Here you can find further information about the summer school. Applications can be submitted until 14 May 2019 via an online form on the website http://bit.do/
03-17.03.2019 | German-Ukrainian Summer School in Agricultural Economics.
08.03.2019| Dr.Oleg Nivievskyi gave a comment in the “Skhemy” TV program on the activities of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences.
08.03.2019| On 3-17 March, 2019 Ph.D. students of the UaFood Trade Project Roman Neyter, Pavlo Martyshev and Oleksandr Donchenko participated in the German-Ukrainian Summer School in Agricultural Economics “Foundations of Agricultural Economics: Selected Topics” in IAMO (Halle, Germany). This Summer School included visits to the agricultural enterprises in Saxony-Anhalt, presentations of the research papers and one week of the course Foundations of Agricultural Economics delivered by Prof. Michael Grings.
PhD student Pavlo Martyshev presented his research on the impact of devaluation on Ukrainian meat import; PhD student Oleksandr Donchenko presented the research paper “The impact of the Russian agricultural import ban on domestic fresh apple market in Ukraine”; PhD student Roman Neyter presented the research on the effect of subsidies on farms’ exit decision in the framework of the Summer School, 3-17 March 2019.
14.03.2019| Dr.Oleg Nivievskyi gave a lecture on Land Markets and efficiency of usage of state land in the framework of the VoxConnector Editors’ club series of lectures on Land Reform for the journalists.
15.03.2019| Dr.Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the Panel discussion on the election programs (on agricultural policy) of the candidates for President of Ukraine position. The discussion was organized by the German-Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Dialogue.
26.03.2019| Dr.Oleg Nivievskyi participated in the discussion of the textbook on Agricultural Policy of Ukraine. The discussion was organized by the German-Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Dialogue.
27.03.2019| Dr.Oleg Nivievskyi chaired the On-line session on Research on Land Markets in Ukraine. The session took place in the framework of the Annual World Bank Conference on Land Poverty “Catalyzing Innovation”. Two papers were presented, where Dr.Oleg Nivievskyi was a co-author.
14.02.2019| Roman Neyter, PhD student of the UaFood Trade Project, presented his research dedicated to the effect of subsidies on farms’ exit at Kyiv School of Economics research seminar.
22.12.2018| Announcement about German-Ukrainian Summer School in Agricultural Economics “Foundations of Agricultural Economics: Selected Topics” from 3th to 17th of March, 2019.
It is organized by Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO), Halle, Germany in cooperation with Institute of Agricultural and Nutritional Sciences of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU), Halle, Germany, and Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Kyiv, Ukraine, UaFoodTrade Pilot Project.
21.12.2018| Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi gave the Interview on farmland moratorium and agriholdings to the LaScalA (Large Scale Agriculture) Project.
21.12.2018| A note on Challenges to agricultural budget support policy (in English /German) by Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi was published in the Newsletter of the German Advisory Group.
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Over the last years, Ukraine’s agri-food sector demonstrated resilient growth and developed into a key source of foreign exchange for the economy. In 2017 it accounted for 14.5% of GDP and more than 42% of total goods exports. This positive development came against a significant reduction in the volume of agricultural budget support over the recent years. The structure of the support also changed, moving from tax benefits to direct support in the form of input subsidies. However, the way the direct support programmes are designed and implemented, as well as the negative effects of input subsidies on efficiency and productivity, raise serious concerns about their sustainability and effectiveness. A more targeted and modern approach is needed in order to address the current major problems of the sector (shortage of workers and financial constraints) under severe fiscal constraints facing the country.
14.12.2018| Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi made the presentation at the Policy Seminar on Reduced VAT Rate for Agri-Food Products.
Presentation is available here.
03.12.2018|Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi published the article “How should the new agricultural budget support policy look like” in the business edition of the magazine Novoe Vremia.
16.11.2018 | Oleg NIvievskyi delivered the lecture on Economics of Agricultural State Support Policy in Ukraine for journalists in the framework of the Center of Excellence in Economic Journalism.
24.10.2018 | Oleg NIvievskyi and Denys Nizalov presented Analysis of the New Economic Course of Yulia Tymoshenko in the area of agriculture and land governance. It is published in VoxUkraine.
18.10. 2018 | KSE Team of the Project met Prof. Harald von Witzke from Humbolt University of Berlin and Agritrade Ukraine project to discuss potential areas of cooperation and joint research and analytical work on important agri-food policy issues in Ukraine.
12.10. 2018 | Dr. Volodymyr Vakhitov gave a talk in the framework of the TEDsKSE conference.
8.10-13.10. 2018 | The Summer School for PhD students in Agricultural Economics.
The participants of the course got certificates about successful completion and participation.
26.09.2018 | Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi published the article entitled “Individual Farming as the Cornerstone of Agricultural Development in Ukraine” on the Internet platform AgroPortal.
24.09.2018 | Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi presented the lecture on “Analytical skills and practical agricultural policy problems” within the framework of the APD Summer School 2018.
20.09.2018 | Kick-off meeting of UaFoodTrade project. Report on the kick-off meeting of UaFoodTrade project
20.09.2018 | Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi and PhD student Roman Neyter published the article entitled “The New Agricultural Support System in Ukraine: Who Really Benefits?”
27.06.2018 | Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi was participant at the IAMO Forum 2018 and gave the presentation entitled “Revisiting farm structure development and productivity in Ukraine” (within the framework of the organized session A2: Asia and Europe).
01.05.2018 ǀ Dr. Sören Prehn joined the IAMO project team as a postdoc. He will be a member of the Working Group III “Agricultural Trade and Trade Scenarios”. The team was also expanded by the PhD students Maximilian Heigermoser and Olga Polonska. Maximilian Heigermoser will dedicate his research on market integration of agricultural and food markets in the Working Group I “Integration of markets and value chains”. Olga Polonska is interested in research questions on the structure and stability of trade relations between Ukraine and the EU.
19.03.2018 | Job interviews with the candidates of the UaFoodTrade project at the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE), Ukraine, as well as filling the positions with Dr. Oleg Nivievskyi (Project Coordinator at KSE), Dr.Volodymyr Vakhitov (postdoc at KSE), Oleksandr Donchenko (PhD student), Roman Neyter (PhD student), Pavlo Martyshev (PhD student) and Valentyna Marusiak (Project Assistant).
19.03.2018 | Meeting with Prof. Dr. Verchenko, Academic Director of Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) in Kiev, Ukraine.
19.03.2018 | Talks on strategic cooperation with Dr. Olga Trofimtseva, Vice Minister for Agricultural Policy and Food of Ukraine, and Dr. Alex Lissitsa, president of UCAB and CEO of Agroholding IMC, in Kiev, Ukraine.