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Podcast: "Even in times of war, our cows want to be fed" – Ukrainian farmers tell their story

Map of Ukraine, two circles depicting Andrii Nikolaiuk and Yevhenii Honcharenko

In the north, Andrii Nikolaiuk's employees were intimidated by the military, the village was surrounded. In the west it is quieter, Yevhenii Honcharenko's employees take care of refugees and relief supplies there.

"In the village cut off by the war, we distributed the milk free of charge to the population," Andrii Nikolaiuk told the podcast team.

Four people in a Zoom call

Anastasiia (top right) conducted the online interview with Yevhenii (top left) and Andrii (bottom right). Olga (bottom left) ensured that everything ran smoothly in the background.

Tobias Eisenring and Toralf Richter

Tobias Eisenring (l.) and Toralf Richter (r.) are in charge of FiBL projects in Ukraine. They complement the interview with background information.

Logo FiBL Focus

In this FiBL Focus Talk: 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.

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