The military conflict in Ukraine has a negative impact on the food security of the most vulnerable rural households. For rural communities, conflict leads to large-scale displacement, exacerbates existing vulnerability, and disrupts agricultural livelihoods for households.
First of all, this concerns internally displaced persons who were forced to leave their homes and move to regions of Ukraine further away from active hostilities, as well as households that host IDPs, or those who lost relatives and loved ones at the front, or lost their ability to work due to the military conflict.
In this situation, Ukraine is actively supported by European and international organizations that provide financial and material support to the most socially vulnerable sections of the population. Thus, since the beginning of the military conflict, the United Nations and the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations have been implementing a program in Ukraine, including in the Lviv region, aimed at ensuring the immediate food and basic needs of vulnerable households affected by the conflict in rural areas. The partner of the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations in Lviv Oblast is the Lviv Agrarian Chamber.
In active cooperation with the Department of Agro-Industrial Development of the Lviv Oblast, the Lviv Agrarian Chamber organized and conducted the distribution of potato seeds and seeds of short-cycle vegetable crops in almost 30 territorial communities of the Lviv region (in particular, in Stryiska, Trostyanetska, Radekhivska, Brodivska, Velikolyubinska, Chervonohradska, and others), where agricultural production is the main source of income.
Seeds went to particularly vulnerable food-insecure beneficiaries among IDPs and host families, including female heads of households, single mothers, the elderly, people with disabilities, and others.
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of territorial communities of Lviv region and the number of beneficiaries who received seed potatoes
| No. from/p | Name of territorial community | Number of beneficiaries |
| 1 | Velikolyubinska TG | 55 |
| 2 | Dobrosynsko-Magerivska TG | 40 |
| 3 | Zabolotsivska TG | 67 |
| 4 | Rudkivska TG | 50 |
| 5 | Stryyska TG | 68 |
In the photo: Rudkivska TG. Distribution of potato seeds, 05/06/2022
The next stage of the program, aimed at providing immediate food and basic needs of vulnerable households affected by the conflict in rural areas, was the distribution of seeds of short-cycle vegetable crops. Out of 30 territorial communities selected at the stage of creating an effective and transparent system for determining target beneficiaries, 22 territorial communities were selected for the distribution of vegetable seeds. In each community, a responsible employee was identified, who was engaged in the formation of the database of beneficiaries, according to the defined criteria. The selection was made among vulnerable rural households engaged in home vegetable cultivation, having access to 0.2 hectares of land and meeting the vulnerability criteria (households of IDPs, host families, households with the highest level of food insecurity; households headed by women; households with pregnant and/or lactating mothers and children under one year old; elderly people; people with disability).
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territorial communities of Lviv region and the number of beneficiaries who received a set of short-cycle seeds
No. z/p Name of territorial community Number of beneficiaries
1 Trostyanetska TG 30
2 Stryyska TG 37
3 Mostyska TG 90
4 Zabolotsivska TG 10
5 Brodivska TG 92
6 Velikolyubinska TG 35
7 Zolochivska TG 60
8 Skhidnytska TG 39
9 Morshinska TG 61
10 Yavorivska TG 60
11 Drohobytska TG 25
12 Glinyanska TG 25
13 Horodotska TG 61
14 Rudkivska TG 30
15 Chervonogradska TG 30
16 Dobrosynsko-Magerivska TG 60
17 Rozvadivska TG 45
18 Dobrotvirska TG 31
19 Przemyshlianska TG 66
20 Hnizdychivska TG 60
21 Khodorivska TG 41
22 Dobromilska TG 14
In total, a thousand households received such sets of vegetable seeds.
On the photo: Mostyska TG, issue of a set of seeds for open ground, 05/17/2022
In the future, within the framework of the project, it is planned to cover up to 3,000 vulnerable households in 70 percent of the territorial communities of the region. The next stage is the distribution of a set of fodder for poultry, pigs and cattle. Preparatory work is currently underway – communication with territorial communities, familiarization with the direction and form of assistance, criteria for selecting beneficiaries, formation of a database of vulnerable categories.
Therefore, we ask the heads of territorial communities to apply for active cooperation.
In the photo: Dobrosynsko-Magerivska TG. Potatoes received as part of the project.