Climate change poses an increasing challenge to Ukraine’s ambitions to become an agricultural superpower,

Climate change poses an increasing challenge to Ukraine’s ambitions to become an agricultural superpower, Anna Ackerman writes in an Atlantic Council Ukraine Blog. “The single most striking and alarming factor about the changing weather conditions in Ukraine during 2020 was the scarcity of rain,” writes Ackerman, a board member at the Kyiv-based Ecoaction Centre for Environmental Initiatives The Ukrainian agricultural industry relies heavily on rainfall, but rain was irregular throughout the past year and fell 8% below annual norms.”