Center for Food and Land Use Research (KSE Agrocenter)

Kyiv School of Economics
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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.

Vacancies

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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.

Online courses

Hedging price risks on the agricultural market using derivatives

Academic papers

Martyshev. P., Prehn, S., Perekhozhuk, O., Vakhitov, V. (2023). The Effects of Domestic Currency Depreciation on Import Substitution: New Empirical Evidence from the Ukrainian Pork Industry. Eastern European Economics. DOI: 10.1080/00128775.2023.2167721

Ihle, R., Bar-Nahum, Z., Nivievskyi, O., Rubin, O. (2022). Russia’s invasion of Ukraine increased the synchronisation of global commodity prices. Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 66, 775– 796. DOI: 10.1111/1467-8489.12496

Kussul, N., Deininger, K., Shumilo, L., Lavreniuk, M., Ayalew Ali, D., Nivievskyi, O. (2022). Biophysical Impact of Sunflower Crop Rotation on Agricultural Fields. Sustainability 14, no. 7: 3965. DOI: 10.3390/su14073965

Policy research and publications

The Impact of Commodity Exchange Trade on the Development of Ukraine’s Timber Market (Ukrainian)

“Measuring tax efforts of Ukrainian ATCs”

“Ukrainian ATCs during RF full-scale invasion”

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

Agricultural War Damages, Losses, and Needs

– April 2023

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

– November 2022

– June 2022

Agricultural war damages review Ukraine (methodology)

– November 2022

– June 2022

Food Security and Agricultural Policy

– September 2022 (release 1)

– August 2022

– July 2022 (release 2)

– July 2022

– June 2022

– May 2022

– Foreword to the series and methodology

Land Governance Review

Agricultural Support Review

– November 2021

– October 2021

Projects

Decentralization and Communities Amalgamations: Increasing the Urban and Rural Divide?

Rapid Needs Assessment: Protecting Property Rights during and after the War in Ukraine

Analysis of the Ukrainian agri-food market for effective implementation of the UN World Food Programme (WFP)

Ukraine: Country Climate and Development Report. Study on Options for Mitigation of and Adaptation to Climate Change for Agriculture in Ukraine

Supporting Transparent Land Governance in Ukraine

UaFoodTrade

Business Survey "Business Pulse 2022. Ukraine"

Team

Oleg Nivievskyi

Dean of the Faculty of the Graduate Economics Studies, Assistant Professor, Associated Member of the Center for Food and Land Use Research

Oleksandr Perekhozhuk

Associated Member at the Center for Food and Land Use Research, Research Associate at IAMO

William Meyers

Associated Member at the Center for Food and Land Use Research, Professor Emeritus at Iowa State University and University of Missouri, Adjunct Professor at School of Economics, Management and Statistics, University of Bologna