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Using Satellite Imagery and a Farmer Registry to Assess Agricultural Support in Conflict Settings: The Case of the Producer Support Grant Program in Ukraine

20 Sep 2024

While cash transfers have emerged as an attractive option to minimize negative long-term impacts of conflict, the scope for targeting and assessing their impact in such settings is often challenging. This paper shows how a digital farmer registry in Ukraine (the State Agrarian Register) helped to target and evaluate such a program, using the country’s $50 million Producer Support Grant in a way that largely avoided mis-targeting. The analysis applies a difference-in-differences design with panel data from 2019–23 on crop cover at the parcel/farm level for the universe of eligible farmers registered in the State Agrarian Register. The findings suggest that the program significantly increased area cultivated, although the effect size remained modest. Impacts were most pronounced near the frontline and for the smallest farmers. The paper discusses the implications in terms of a more diversified menu of support options and the scope of using the State Agrarian Register to help to implement these options, as well as lessons beyond Ukraine.
food security ukraine agricultural production remote sensing sdg 16 cash grants zero hunger conflict and development::conflict and fragile states conflict and development::armed conflict agriculture::agribusiness agriculture::food security agriculture::agriculture & farming systems peace, justice and strong institutions sdg 2 conflict/war

Authors

Deininger, Klaus, Ali, Daniel Ayalew

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“ Deininger, Klaus ; Ali, Daniel Ayalew . 2024 . Using Satellite Imagery and a Farmer Registry to Assess Agricultural Support in Conflict Settings: The Case of the Producer Support Grant Program in Ukraine . Policy Research Working Paper; 10912 . © Washington, DC: World Bank . http://hdl.handle.net/10986/42177 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO . ”
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Policy Research Working Papers
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-10912
Identifier externaldocumentum
34392175
Identifier internaldocumentum
34392175
Pages
36
Published in
United States of America
Region country
Ukraine
RelationisPartofseries
Policy Research Working Paper; 10912
Report
WPS10912
Rights
CC BY 3.0 IGO
Rights Holder
World Bank
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/
UNIT
DEC-Sustainability & Infrastruct (DECSI)
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/10986/42177
date disclosure
2024-09-20
region administrative
Europe and Central Asia
theme
Urban and Rural Development,Land Policy and Tenure,Rural Development,Land Administration and Management

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