HUMAN WRONGS WATCH

21 December 2018 (UN Environment)* — Ukraine, dubbed the breadbasket of Europe, is a grain-producing country that feeds people in European markets and beyond. Its fertile great plains stretch as far as the eye can see, undulating grains interlaced with family-owned dachas each with its own fruit and vegetable patch. In 2018, Ukrainian farmers cultivated a total of 30 million hectares of land, an area about the size of Italy.

Viacheslav Dzhulai manages a 370-hectare farm in central Cherkasy: “We grow soybeans and corn, which we then use for feeding livestock,” he says.