The United States, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), has established a $100 million Ukraine Agriculture Resilience Initiative (AGRI-Ukraine) to bolster Ukrainian agriculture exports and to help alleviate the global food security crisis exacerbated by russia war on Ukraine.
AGRI-Ukraine will target Ukraine’s current agricultural export challenges, while also simultaneously supporting the wider needs of Ukraine’s agriculture sector and bolstering Ukraine’s continued production of agricultural commodities through 2023.
The Initiative will increase Ukrainian farmers’ access to critical agricultural inputs including seeds, fertilizer, equipment, and pesticides, enhance Ukrainian infrastructure capacity and capability to efficiently export agricultural goods, increase farmers’ access to financing, and expand the capacity of Ukrainian businesses to dry and temporarily store, and process agricultural commodities.
USAID seeks to raise an additional $150 million for the Initiative from fellow donors and the private sector with an overall target of $250 million. Since russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the organization has been supporting agri sector of Ukraine and provides over 8,000 Ukrainian farmers with seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, and more, reaching approximately 14% of the country’s registered agriculture enterprises, to help them deliver this year’s harvest despite the devastation caused by russia’s invasion.
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