This proposal will have the following 2-year major practical tasks:

First year:

• Develop the archive of the 30-year satellite and in situ data records;
• Evaluate current trend in climate, land surface and agricultural records;
• Modeling drought and low winter temperature affecting winterkill by combining satellite proxy and climate data;

Second year:

• Assess drought-related agricultural production losses;
• Future trends in regional vegetation green-up, seasonal precipitation and temperature;
• Future environmental trends contribution to food security in Ukraine.

These activities will organized

These general tasks will be organized in four work packages (WP) which are partitioned into the sub-tasks (Fig. 1).