FARM Program Goals

The FARM Program seeks to:

• Support the reform of Ukraine’s primary agriculture and food-related industries;
• Facilitate the creation of profitable farms and improved rural livelihoods under a market economy;
• Promote effective rural grassroots institutions participation in agrarian policy development; provide partnership opportunities for Ukrainian and Canadian companies and facilitate trade and investment links between Canada and Ukraine.

The FARM Program will support agricultural reform in Ukraine in the areas of:

• Institutional Capacity of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, governmental agencies at the national, oblast and local levels as well as agricultural research and educational establishments in the development of agricultural policy and programs.
• Agricultural Extension services at the national, oblast and local levels;
• Civil Society Development in decision-making processes that affect farmers’ livelihoods.