Quantifying War-Induced Crop Losses in Ukraine in Near Real Time to Strengthen Local and Global Food Security

dc.creatorKussul, Nataliia
dc.creatorDeininger, Klaus
dc.creatorShelestov, Andrii
dc.creatorAli, Daniel Ayalew
dc.creatorLemoine, Guido
dc.creatorYailimova, Hanna
dc.date2022-07-08T18:29:05Z
dc.date2022-07-08T18:29:05Z
dc.date2022-07
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:34:45Z
dc.descriptionThis paper uses a 4-year panel (2019–2022) of 10,125 village councils in Ukraine to estimate direct and indirect effects of the war started by Russia on area and expected yield of winter crops. Satellite imagery is used to provide information on direct damage to agricultural fields; classify crop cover using machine learning; and compute the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) for winter cereal fields as a proxy for yield. Without conflict, winter crop area would have been 9.14 rather than 8.38 mn. ha, a 0.75 mn. ha reduction, 86% of which is due to economy-wide effects. The estimated conflict-induced drop in NDVI for winter cereal, which is particularly pronounced for small farms, translates into a 15% yield reduction or an output loss of 4.2 million tons. Taking area and yield reduction together suggests a war-induced loss of winter crop output of 20% if the current winter crop can be harvested fully.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099102207072236777/IDU0de02933f001de04df5087c30538da5ba4b35
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/37665
dc.identifier10.1596/1813-9450-10123
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/406550
dc.languageEnglish
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWashington, DC : World Bank
dc.relationPolicy Research Working Paper;10123
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectUKRAINE
dc.subjectAGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
dc.subjectFOOD SECURITY
dc.subjectMACHINE LEARNING
dc.subjectCONFLICT
dc.subjectWAR
dc.titleQuantifying War-Induced Crop Losses in Ukraine in Near Real Time to Strengthen Local and Global Food Security
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
dc.typeDocumento de trabajo

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