Agricultural Policy in Ukraine

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the evolution and current state of agricultural policy in Ukraine since independence, highlighting its impact on sector performance, productivity, and food security within a political economy framework.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive assessment of Ukraine's agricultural policy development, institutional structure, and sector performance since the Soviet Union's breakup.

Findings

Major milestones in policy development identified

Sector productivity potential analyzed

Role of agriculture in food security discussed

Abstract

Building upon the theory and methodology of agricultural policy developed in the previous chapter, in Chapter 2 we analyse and assess agricultural policy making in Ukraine since the breakup of Soviet Union till today. Going from top down to the bottom, we begin by describing the evolution of state policy in the agri-food sector. In the beginning, we describe the major milestones of agricultural policy making since independence, paving the way to the political economy of the modern agricultural policy in Ukraine. Then we describe the role of agri-food sector in the national economy as well as globally in ensuring food security in the world. After, we dig deeper and focus on a detailed performance of agricultural sector by looking at farm structures, their land use, overall and sector-wise untapped productivity potential. Modern agricultural policy and institutional set-up is contained and analyzed in details in the section 2.4. A review of the agricultural up- and downstream sectors wraps up this chapter