Please join the Ukrainian Studies Program at the Harriman Institute for a conversation with L.H. Lumey (Columbia University) and Oleh Wolowyna (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill). Moderated by Mark Andryczyk.
Russia's deliberate war strategy in Ukraine has disrupted agriculture and food storage and distribution systems to hinder food supplies to the population, with consequences extending beyond Ukraine. The war has created an immediate humanitarian crisis of catastrophic proportions.
In 1932-1933, Ukrainian food availability was also obstructed by Soviet interventions, leading to 4 million excess deaths in the Holodomor (death by starvation) famine. We reconstructed Ukraine births in the years 1930-1938 and found that men and women exposed to severe famine in early gestation had a two-fold diabetes risk in the years 2000-2008. This shows that food-crises related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine are likely to affect not only the current but also the next generation.
