Antonina Broyaka

Antonina Broyaka is an extension assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural Economics at Kansas State University (KSU). She holds a PhD in economics from the Institute of Agrarian Economics of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine, a certificate of associate professor (Ukraine), and an MBA in agri-food business from Warsaw University of Life Science. From 1998 to 2022, she held various academic positions at Ukraine’s Vinnytsia National Agrarian University before serving as Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Entrepreneurship. Her research interests include food security, grain markets and agricultural foreign trade, and development of agro-industrial sector and agricultural extension service. She is also interested in international cooperation and experience exchange. She participated in the faculty exchange program between the Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Penn State University, the Fulbright Junior Faculty Development Program, and the USAID/Louisiana State University international technical assistance project at her home university in Ukraine, aimed at improving the income of Ukrainian agricultural producers through developing an agricultural extension system. Dr. Broyaka’s current research focuses on the impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on agriculture, global food security, agricultural markets, and trade. She is involved in the USAID/Ukraine HARVEST Activity, with aims to return Ukraine’s production and income for key crops—barley, corn, soybeans, sunflowers, and wheat—to at least pre-war levels. She also participates in USDA projects in Georgia and Armenia, focusing on increasing self-reliance in wheat and flour production and improving the wheat supply chain in these countries.