The Warsaw University of Life Sciences – SGGW, the Poznan University of Life Sciences, Kyiv School of Economics and the Thϋnen Institute are honored to announce:
189th EAAE SEMINAR ‘EU enlargement by (post)-war Ukraine: Implications for the Agri-Food Markets’, 18-19 September 2024, Warsaw
Since 2017, the EU-Ukraine Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) Agreement has been in force to strengthen Ukraine’s political ties and economic integration with the EU further. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Ukraine applied for EU membership and was granted EU candidate status in June 2022.
Ukraine’s agricultural sector is market-oriented, competitive, and resources-abundant. The total agricultural land amounts to 42.2 million hectares, of which 32 million hectares are arable land. Thus, Ukraine’s agricultural area corresponds to 25% of the EU’s agricultural area and one-third of the EU’s arable land. Also, Ukraine is the world’s third-largest exporter of rapeseed, the seventh-largest exporter of soybeans, and fourth-largest exporter of corn.
Objectives and scope of the seminar
The seminar intends to bring a broad range of research disciplines together to discuss the effects of the Russian war against Ukraine on the agricultural sector in Ukraine, the EU, and non-EU countries. Further, the seminar aims at discussing the results of the scenario analyses of the economic impact of a further integration of Ukraine into European agri-food markets.
The seminar offers a platform to exchange ideas and generate an integrated view of agricultural potential, value chain development, and public policy in the broad European context. The seminar primarily addresses the scientific community but is also open to decision-makers in business, politics, and NGOs, including the donor community.
Among others, the expected topics to be covered by the papers include the following items:
- Analysis of changes in the structure/organization of agricultural production, trade, and prices in Ukraine in the last decade and expected future trends.
- Quantification of short- and long-term effects of the war on the agri-food sectors and food security in Ukraine, EU member states, as well as non-EU countries and regions, including solutions and policy recommendations.
- Analysis of effects of past and future agricultural trade policy and other policies related to the war in Ukraine on the agri-food sectors.
- Scenario analysis of the effects of Ukraine’s accession to the EU for agri-food sectors in Ukraine, EU member states, as well as non-EU countries.
For more information, visit: https://www.eaae189.org/
