Duration: 2024 (10 months)

Lead Partner: Information Center “Green Dossier”

Funding: European Union and International Renaissance Foundation within the framework “European Renaissance of Ukraine”

Project website: English and Ukrainian

Project description

One of the important areas in the negotiations on Ukraine’s EU membership is the agricultural sector. Anticipating Ukraine’s accession to the EU, with its vast farmland and even greater challenges, the relevant EU institutions are already thinking about the difficult task of future cooperation.

Meanwhile, Ukraine will have to transform its agricultural sector and agricultural policy to align with the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy and the European Green Deal, develop a national agricultural development plan, coordinate activities with European institutions, and reach an understanding with neighbouring countries. In particular, Ukraine needs to convince immediate neighbours that its accession to the EU and cooperation in developing green and inclusive agricultural policy will benefit all.

The aims of the project include:

• Continuing to study the environmental and climate components of the CAP that will affect Ukraine’s agricultural producers and the objectives that Ukraine needs to achieve.
• Demonstrating the benefits of Ukraine’s accession to the EU for neighbouring countries, in the field of environmental and climate protection in agriculture, using the example of cooperation between the Carpathian countries.

Project activities include:

• A study of EU legislation that has to be adapted/adopted at the intersection of environmental and agricultural issues and its publication on the resource already developed by the RAC “Society and Environment” with the support of the International Renaissance Foundation.
• Study visit to Ukraine for WG SARD members and opinion leaders from the Carpathian Convention Parties: to learn about the Ukrainian experience of craft production in the Carpathians, organic agriculture, geographical indications and opportunities for agritourism in the mountains.
• Online consultations with the Carpathian stakeholders on:
  • How to work together to achieve climate neutrality in line with the objectives of the European Green Deal
  • Nature-based solutions in mountain agriculture as part of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy
  • Implementation of agro-ecological programmes in the Carpathians 
  • Modern development of pastoralism and support for local products