poultry

MHP: 'Business a usual' while communities suffer

Briefing | September 29, 2017

Ukraine’s monopolist poultry producer, MHP, has received more than half a billion euros in loans from the EBRD and other public banks including the European Investment Bank, the International Finance Corporation and export credit agencies like Atradius.

These massive investments have not brought the company’s performance and culture in line with the relevant EU and EBRD standards. Rural communities in Cherkasy, Vinnytsya and the Dnipropetrovsk regions say that if the company continues with ‘business as usual’ they will face more violence and suppression of their opinions.

Institution: EBRD

Theme: Social & economic impacts

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The controversial Ukrainian agribusiness giant Myronivsky Hliboproduct (MHP) tries to handle community relations by putting publicity spin on the outcomes of a long overdue discussion with civil society.

Tags: agribusiness chicken local communities MHP oligarch pollution poultry CEE EU neighbourhood

Theme: Other harmful projects

Hatching discontent in Ukraine

In Ukraine, big agriculture uses unscrupulous methods to manufacture consensus for expansion and marginalise local communities - often with the support of international donors.

Tags: agribusiness agriculture chicken harassment MHP poultry CEE EU neighbourhood

Institution: EBRD

Theme: Social & economic impacts

Guest post: EBRD financed Ukrainian agribusiness causes local insecurities

Environmental groups in Ukraine have highlighted the negative local impacts of one of the biggest agribusinesses in the country, MHP, that is in line to receive additional credit by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

Tags: agribusiness agriculture farming local impacts manure pollution poultry Ukraine water CEE EU neighbourhood