Viktoria Hubareva

Jan 26, 2024 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Benjamin Joyeux |Viktoria Hubareva |Alain Coulombel |Madeleine Sallustio

Society’s fatal dependence on artificial fertiliser has its roots in the industrial revolution and the western world’s search for food security. Today we are on the brink of another breakthrough in human nutrition: but as history shows, new food technologies have unforeseen consequences. Food comes first in the order of humanity’s needs. Then come not only morals (Brecht), but also all the subtleties of advanced gastronomy.

Dec 20, 2023 | eurozine.com | Olena Myhashko |Viktoria Hubareva

In the 1990s, Ukraine again became one of the world’s leading grain exporters after decades of Soviet agricultural mismanagement. It retains this status despite the major disruptions in the European grain market caused by the war. Ukraine has always been one of the largest s­uppliers of grain to global markets. At the beginning of the twentieth century its share in the global export of wheat stood at 20%, barley at 43% and grain in general at 21%.

Dec 4, 2023 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Francesca Romana Spinelli |Raluca Besliu |Viktoria Hubareva |Vasyl Cherepanyn

Could EU enlargement, combined with an acknowledgement of its imperialist heritage and the introduction of Europe-wide common citizenship, put an end to warring nation-states? Enlargement of the European Union resurfaced on the geopolitical horizon in 2022. The accession of aspiring countries was back on the agenda out of dire necessity when Russia escalated its war on Ukraine.

Dec 4, 2023 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Viktoria Hubareva |Ben Ryan |Molly Scott Cato |Philippa Nuttall

The European Green Deal has set in motion far-reaching changes and achieved major successes, despite multiple global crises, towards a more sustainable European economy. But culture wars over agriculture, less ambitious industrial policies than those of the EU’s global competitors, and unmitigated social impacts risk slowing or stalling the bloc’s climate agenda. In December 2019, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen launched the European Green Deal.

Jun 23, 2023 | greeneuropeanjournal.eu | Viktoria Hubareva |Vasyl Cherepanyn |Cléa Fache |Hugo Chirol

Ukraine’s reconstruction is only partly a matter for the future: housing, agriculture and the energy grid require immediate action, even as the war rages on. But economic recovery, as climate journalist Martin Vrba argues, must not be a return to the past. Only a green transition can ensure Ukraine’s resilience in war and geopolitical independence in peacetime.