Finland contributes EUR 5 million to the World Food Programme (WFP) to support the implementation of the Black Sea Grain Initiative. With Finland’s support, WFP is buying grain from Ukraine and taking it to African countries affected by the food crisis.
Gilles Mettetal, a member of the Board of Directors of Astarta, became a speaker of the webinar “Agricultural Investing for Social and Environmental Impact: Building the Ukrainian Story”, organized as part of the Chapter Zero Ukraine and Caucasus initiative and dedicated to ESG investing in agriculture.
Ukraine may curb the production of agricultural products and food this year as more than 2.6 million hectares of farmlands require demining due to Russian aggression.
That’s according to Yuliya Svyrydenko, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine, who spoke in Brussels after the meeting of the Committee of Permanent Representatives of the EU (COREPER II), an Ukrinform correspondent reports.
The VALSAMITIS bulk carrier with 25,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat to Kenya and 5,000 tonnes to Ethiopia has left the port of Chornomorsk. This is the fifth vessel under the Grain From Ukraine program, which aims to provide Ukrainian grain to countries suffering from hunger.
The Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of the Republic of Poland held an online meeting on the export of Ukrainian grain through the territory of the Republic of Poland.
Ukraine wheat flour production was reduced at the beginning of the war, but very soon the production recovered being able to meet current domestic demand and allow the building up strategic stocks.
In recent years, Ukraine has become an important supplier of organic products to the EU. Total exports in 2021 amounted to USD 222 million. In the same year, our country ranked 5th in the world out of 126 countries in terms of imports of organic products to the EU. More than 80 types of our products were exported to 30 countries. This was stated by Taras Vysotskyi, First Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, at the opening of the international trade fair for organic products Biofach 2023.
About 60,000 hectares of territory remain mined in the de-occupied part of the Kherson region.
Radio Svoboda reports this with reference to data from the Kherson Regional Military Administration.
Joint statement of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmytro Kuleba and Deputy Prime-minister for Restoration of Ukraine – Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov on Russian obstructing of navigation in the Black Sea
Ukraine is deeply concerned about the destructive actions of the Russian Federation, which result in the delay of the work of the Black Sea grain corridor, obstructing the Black Sea Grain Initiative in general, shipping in the Black Sea and free access of food to world markets.
The war has set new challenges for businesses and charitable organizations. Astarta’s practice of building a socially responsible business and supporting local communities has come in handy as never before.