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CAS Rebuild Ukraine – Agro Project
Project info
Land Remediation Strategies for Local Farms in Ukraine including the concept of smart-carbon land usage
- Project Team: Hanna Stepanenko, Yevgen Getman, Yevheniia Kozyr, Galyna Chos, Igor Storchak
- Industry: Agro/Tech/Science/IT
- Technology: Mapping/Soil Analysis
- Contact: [email protected]
- Website: www.greenukraine.ch
Situation in Ukraine
Ukraine is one of the leading players in global agriculture.
Contributing significantly to global food security, Ukraine is a major exporter of wheat, corn, and sunflower oil, the country was feeding 400 Million people worldwide.
The war has impacted 50,000 sq. km of agricultural lands, affecting productivity and sustainability.
Small and medium-sized farmers are most vulnerable, facing the greatest challenges
Project Objectives
- Visualise Ukraine’s soil pollution for the broad community
- Improve the interactive pollution map for enhanced user engagement
- Fill and structure the data, identify contaminated soils on map
- Create a bridge between researchers, land users and policy makers
- To use samples taken from areas with chemical contamination to calculate CO offsets for several types of energy crops (biofuel crops) according to the EU Methodology
- To propose an interpreted methodology with one or more variables for Ukrainian conditions (including military pollution) based on the existing EU methodology
- Develop legal proposals for the Ukrainian government authorities on the introduction of a carbon credit trading market, including the need to sign international agreements with countries interested in carbon credits, following the examples of the agreement already signed between Ukraine and Switzerland.
- Promote the project to garner public attention and interest in the subject
Expected Results
1) Develop unique expertise in the remediation of war-damaged lands
2) Create an interactive map database to estimate the damage
3) Support small, medium, and large farming enterprises based on this expertise
4) Restore the productivity of Ukraine’s agrarian lands and its potential as leading agro-producer
Sustainability
- Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss
- Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts
- End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture