We are pleased to announce that our many years of work in cooperation with the World Bank have once again received international recognition and have become the basis for the analysis of the state of the Ukrainian agricultural sector in times of war in the authoritative German journal OE Zeitschrift Osteuropa!
In the article “Uprooted: Ukrainian Agriculture in Times of War”, Professor Stefan von Kramon-Taubadel and Salome Gelashvili (University of Göttingen, Germany) analyze how the full-scale invasion changed the landscape of Ukrainian agriculture, and express their official gratitude to Professor Nataliia Kussul and our partner from the World Bank Klaus Deininger for providing up-to-date satellite data.
The article used our land use maps, created based on Sentinel-1,2 satellite images and machine learning methods as a result of the department’s many years of cooperation with the World Bank. These data help to estimate the loss of cropland, identify uncultivated fields due to hostilities and mining, and document the impact of the war on the agricultural sector of Ukraine.
For us, this is not just scientific recognition. It is confirmation that Ukrainian science today helps the world better understand the consequences of war. Using artificial intelligence, we turn gigabytes of satellite images into undeniable digital evidence that shows the scale of destruction, helps justify the need to support the Ukrainian agrosphere, and creates the basis for Ukraine’s future recovery and integration into the EU.
And another very nice detail: the authors presented our department with a copy of this publication. Now the book will become part of the library of the department of MMDA ER IPT KPI – and, without exaggeration, one of those publications that one wants to be proud of.
About the publication:
Osteuropa is one of the leading interdisciplinary journals in Germany, which has been publishing analytics on politics, economics, society, and security processes in Eastern Europe since 1925. The journal is indexed in the Scopus and Web of Science databases and is published by the German Society for the Study of Eastern Europe (Deutschen Gesellschaft für Osteuropakunde, DGO). Today, Osteuropa is one of the key sources of expert knowledge about the consequences of Russian aggression and the changing security situation in Europe for scholars, politicians, and journalists from around the world.
🔗 DOI: https://doi.org/10.35998/oe-2025-102
