Center for Food
and Land Use Research
(KSE Agrocenter)

Description

The Center aims to conduct applied and fundamental economic research in the field of agricultural and land policy and prepare regular analytical reviews in key areas of agricultural and land policy of Ukraine.

The Center’s primary mission is to provide key stakeholders in the private and public sectors with quality analytics to ensure optimal data-driven decisions.

The Center studies the development of agri-food markets and value chains, focusing on food security issues and the economics of sustainable land use. The Center regularly conducts policy analyses of the proposed and imposed policy changes that affect the agricultural sector and the land market.

In cooperation with the Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (Germany), the Center develops and strengthens the research capacity and deepens the international integration of Ukraine’s research institutions in the agri-food sector.

Key research areas:

• Land reform and land use economics

• Price formation in agri-food markets

• Integration of Ukraine’s agriculture in global supply chains

• Value chains development

• Ensuring food security

• Volatility and price hedging in agri-food markets

• Analysis of agri-food and rural development policies

• Economics of state support and taxation of the agri-food sector

• Market structures and competition in agri-food markets.

Our research and publications:

• Yearbook “Land Governance Monitoring in Ukraine: 2016-2017” (Ukrainian)
• Yearbook “Land Governance Monitoring in Ukraine: 2014-2015”
• Impact of the Agricultural Tax Exemptions on the Sector Productivity
• Kvasha, S., Dibrova, A., Nivievskyi, O., Martyshev, P. (2022). Agricultural policy. (Chapter 2)
• Nivyevsky, O., Martyshev, P. (2021). Analysis of the impact of reducing the VAT rate for certain types of agricultural products on the development of the Ukrainian economy. German-Ukrainian agropolitical dialogue (APD), Agricultural Policy Review, No. 02/2021.
• WHITE PAPER Strategy for the development of land relations in Ukraine
• Land Market and a Pre-emptive Right in Farmland Sales
• In Unity There Is Strength: The Effect of the Decentralization Reform on Local Budgets in Ukraine
• Restrictions on Farmland Sales Markets: International Experience
• Non-refunding of VAT to soybean exporters or economic impact of “Soybean amendments”
• Assessing the role of small farmers and households in agriculture and the rural economy and measures to support their sustainable development
• Economic And Distributional Impact From Lifting The Farmland Sales Moratorium In Ukraine
• The New Agricultural Support System in Ukraine: Who Really Benefits?

Publication series:

War of RF against Ukraine and global food security

– Is Ukrainian wheat  easily replaced? Global trade flows

– Fighting RF’s propaganda narratives in global food security

– RF’s invasion and global food security: summary of studies

Agricultural outlook Ukraine

– Scenarios: projections for open & blocked export

The indirect war losses in Ukraine’s agriculture (methodology)

– June 2022

Agricultural war damages review Ukraine (methodology)

– June 2022

• Land Governance Review

– January 2022

– December 2021

– November 2021

– October 2021

– September 2021

• Agricultural Support Review 

– November 2021

– October 2021