The Russian full-scale aggression against Ukraine, which started on February 24th this year, puts agriculture in the entire country at risk. Airstrikes, occupation and active military battles, which, by the end of March, are happening mainly in Southern, Eastern and Northern regions are serious threats to the 2022’s sowing and harvesting campaigns.
Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO, Germany), Kyiv School of Economics (KSE, Ukraine), Wageningen University & Research (WUR, Netherlands) and German-Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Dialogue (APD, Ukraine) jointly organize a series of panel discussions “Is Russian full-scale 2022 invasion of Ukraine changing agrifood markets as we know them?”

Well-known Ukrainian and international experts examine and discuss the implications of the Russian aggression on availability and prices of agricultural commodities, patterns of trade, agricultural input industries, national food policies, etc.
100 days past the RF’s invasion:
current state and outlook on food security and agricultural markets around the globe. Online discussion

Organizers: the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE, Ukraine), Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO, Germany), Wageningen University & Research (WUR, Netherlands), German-Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Dialogue (APD, Ukraine).
This panel discussion within the series of discussions Is Russian full-scale 2022 invasion of Ukraine changing agrifood markets as we know them? brings to our attention the outcomes of more than 3-months long war of RF against Ukraine. We review damages and losses in Ukrainian agriculture, impacts on the domestic, global and regional food security, analyze the current and future developments of the agricultural markets globally and in the regions of the world.
The discussion aims to bring together views and analyses of various organizations and experts regarding the global and regional impacts of the full-scale military assault of one of the major staple crops producers in the world.
Moderation:
Prof. Willi Meyers (Agricultural Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Missouri)
Keynote speaker:
Taras Vysotskyi, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
Speakers:
- • Roman Neyter, Center for Food and Land Use Research at Kyiv School of Economics “Impacts of RF’s invasion on Ukrainian agriculture: damages, losses, food security and the future of agrifood markets”
- • Hubertus Gay, Coordinator of the OECD-FAO Agricultural Outlook, Senior Agricultural Policy Analyst at Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Agro-food Trade and Markets of OECD “Impact of the Russian aggression against Ukraine on global agricultural markets”
- • Andrea Capkovicova, Socio-Economic Analyst and EU Outlook Co-ordination at Unit of Analysis and Outlook of DG Agriculture and Rural Development, European Commission “From pandemic to war – EU responses and agricultural markets impacts”
- • Torbjörn Jansson, Associate professor at AgriFood Economics Centre and Department of Economics of the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences “Higher prices but no shortage – a model assessment of global impacts of production losses in Ukraine”
- • Patrick Westhoff, Director of Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, Howard Cowden Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Missouri “Ukraine war impacts on U.S. commodity markets, farm income and consumer food prices”.
Date: 7 July 2022
Time: 16-17:30 Kyiv time (EEST) / 15-16:30 CEST
Language: English with simultaneous Ukrainian-English translation.
Format: Zoom
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Changes in agrarian policy in Ukraine – chances and opportunities during wartime. Online discussion
Organizers: the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE, Ukraine), Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO, Germany), Wageningen University & Research (WUR, Netherlands), German-Ukrainian Agricultural Policy Dialogue (APD, Ukraine).
Moderator: Mariya Yaroshko, acting head of APD project
Speakers:
– Representative of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
– Ophelia Nick, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture of the Federal Republic of Germany
– Mykola Puhachov, Deputy Director of the National Scientific Center “Agrarian Economy Institute”
– Pavlo Koval, CEO of All-Ukrainian Public Union “Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation”, All-Ukrainain Agrarian Forum member
– Alfons Balmann, Director of IAMO, Head of Department Structural Change
– Ihor Abramiuk, Development Director of All-Ukrainian Communities Association
– Frank Muller, agrarian attaché at the Embassy of Federative Republic of Germany in Ukraine
Date: 13 April 2022
Time: 12:00–14:00 Kyiv time (EEST) / 11:00–13:00 CEST
Format: online
Language: The event will be interpreted into Ukrainian / German / English
Agriculture amid the war in Ukraine. Online discussion
Organizers: the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) and Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies (IAMO).
This webinar draws our attention to the multitude of challenges and issues in agricultural production, as well as in the upstream and downstream sectors of the agrifood value chain, that are developing now or may appear in the near future due to the Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Moderation:
Stephan von Cramon-Taubadel, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, University of Göttingen
Speakers:
– Alfons Balmann, Professor, Head of Department Structural Change, IAMO
– Joseph Glauber, Senior Research Fellow at Markets, Trade and Institutions Division, of International Food Policy Research Institute, IFPRI
– Linde Goetz, Deputy Head Department Agricultural Markets, IAMO
– Stephanie Murphy, Senior Director of Corporate and International Government Affairs and Trade at Bayer US
– Georg von Nolcken, Chief Executive Officer, Continental Farmers Group
– Mariia Bogonos, Head of the Center for Food and Land Use Research, KSE
Date: 6 April 2022
Time: 16–17:30 Kyiv time (EEST) / 15.00–16.30 CEST
Format: online
Language: English
Implications of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine for global food markets and food policies. Online discussion
Organizers: the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE, Ukraine) and Wageningen University & Research (WUR, Netherlands). This webinar identifies the major implications of the current conflict in Ukraine on international agri-food markets and food security from the Ukrainian, Dutch, EU and Middle Eastern perspectives.
Speakers:
– Mariia Bogonos, PhD, Head of the Center for Food and Land Use Research (KSE C4FLUR), Kyiv School of Economics
– Kees Huizinga, he has been farming in Ukraine for nearly 20 years.
– Oleg Nivievskyi, Assistant Professor and Vice-President for economics education at Kyiv School of Economics
– Roel Jongeneel, PhD, EU Agriculture and Food Policy Theme Ambassador and coordinator of Wageningen Economic Research’s Dutch-EU market outlook activities
– Jacob Waslander, Dutch envoy to the Middle East and North Africa for Water, Energy and Food
– Stephan Hubertus Gay, Senior Agricultural Policy Analyst at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris
– Rico Ihle, Аssociate professor at the Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy Group of Wageningen University
Date: 31 March 2022
Time: 17:00–18:00 Kyiv time (EEST) / 16:00–17:00 CEST Time
Format: online
Language: English
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