I call this meeting to order.
Welcome to meeting number 22 of the House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food. I'll start with a few reminders.
Today's meeting is taking place in a hybrid fashion, pursuant to the House order of November 25, 2021. The proceedings will be made available via the House of Commons website. So that you are aware, the webcast will always show the person speaking, rather than the entirety of the committee. We are televised today, colleagues. My understanding is that it will be available in the days ahead for CPAC, if they choose to use it. Screenshots or taking photos of your screen is not permitted.
Because we have a couple of new folks on the screen who are joining us as witnesses, for interpretation, you can toggle between English and French for your language of choice. That's at the bottom of your screen. Other than that, we would ask, for the benefit of our translators, that when you are speaking, you try to speak slowly so that they can keep up. Sometimes there is a bit of a delay, particularly virtually. We know we are going to do our best on that end.
Pursuant to Standing Order 108(2) and the motion adopted by the committee on Monday, May 30, 2022, the committee is commencing its study of global food insecurity.
I would now like to welcome our witnesses for our first panel. Joining us today from Ukraine by video conference, we have Dr. Mariia Bogonos, who is the head of the centre for food and land use research at the Kyiv School of Economics. We have Mykhailo Amosov, who is a land use expert from the Center for Environmental Initiatives Ecoaction. We also have Yulia Klymenko, who is a member of Parliament at the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine and the first deputy chairperson of the committee on transport and infrastructure.
Colleagues, I am required, according to the standing orders, to tell you that we had a bit of technical difficulty with Ms. Klymenko's microphone. We weren't able to get a complete test done, but we have played around. We hope we're able to hear her testimony. She has a device, and we're going to do our best to make it happen.
There are a couple of other things I would like to mention, colleagues. We have, of course, a number of CUPP interns in the room. This is the Canada-Ukraine parliamentary program. There are 41 interns on the Hill.
Given what we are studying today, which is global food insecurity as a direct result of the war in Ukraine, we're very thankful to have our witnesses on the screen.
To our witnesses, let me thank you.
The CUPP interns have also played an important role of engaging with folks in Ukraine. Thank you so much. Thank you for your work on the Hill, and thank you for being here today.
We're going to start with five-minute opening statements from each of our witnesses.
Dr. Mariia Bogonos, you have five minutes. I'll turn the floor over to you.