“Even in times of war, our cows want to be fed”. Ukrainian farmers tell their story | English

They help refugees, alleviate the population's famine or serve
in the military: two organic producers from Ukraine tell what
they experienced in these first months of the war and how they
and their farms are doing today. 


Even now, under the difficult conditions of war, Ukrainian
farmers continue their work as best they can. In this interview,
organic producers Yevhеnіi Honcharеnko from Molfar Eco and
Andrii Nikolaiuk from Ethnoproduct talk about their life
and work in a state of emergency.


Anastasiia Pivniuk from Ukraine, who works for a project
managed by FiBL, conducted the interviews with the farmers via
the Internet. She currently works from her home office in a
village near Kyiv, where she moved from the Ukrainian capital
with her family after the Russian full-scale invasion started.
She does not want to leave Ukraine and her family. 


Toralf Richter and Tobias Eisenring from FiBL
Switzerland add some background information. FiBL has been
promoting organic agriculture in Ukraine for 20 years, funded by
the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO).


In the background, Olga Romanyshyn helped to make this
episode a reality. She is the Ukrainian communication and
administration manager for the Quality Food Trade program (QFTP)
which is managed by FiBL. She has fled to her sister in Munich.
She lives and works there at the moment.


 


If you have any questions, suggestions or criticism, please
contact us. Write us an email on podcast@fibl.org. We look
forward to hearing from you, your FiBL Focus Team.


 


Episode 15/FiBL Focus Talk/English

Guests: Yevhеnіi Honcharеnko from Molfar Eco; Andrii
Nikolaiuk from Ethnoproduct; Anastasiia Pivniuk from QFTP; Tobias
Eisenring and Toralf Richter from FiBL


Introduction: Anke Beermann, FiBL
Editor: Franziska Hämmerli, FiBL


 


Support for Ukraine:


·      The organic sector of Ukraine needs support
to survive. If you would like to help, you can find out how from
the ‘Statement on the situation in the Ukrainian organic sector’


·      If you would like to support the people in
Ukraine, you can find more information here: FiBL – Update on
FiBL’s work in Ukraine


 


FiBL Projects in Ukraine:


·      QFTP – Quality Food Trade Program |
Official site


·      Organic Trade 4 Development in Eastern
Europe (OT4D) | IFOAM - Organics International


·      FiBL – Organic Certification and Organic
Market Development in Ukraine (Phase 1)


·      FiBL – Organic Market Development in
Ukraine (Phase 2) 



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