Living next door to 17 million chickens: 'We want a normal life'

Ukrainian villagers living in the shadow of Europe's biggest chicken farm are fighting back - not just against the company but the development banks funding it

The locals call this area the Ryaba-land. That's the name of the chicken brand Nasha Ryaba under which MHP - the largest poultry company in Ukraine and the owners of Vinnytsia farm - sells poultry meat in supermarkets. There are more chicken sheds than houses here. Even the village signs bear the MHP brand.

There are, as is so often the case, tensions between the industrial farms and the villagers. But in this case, anger is focussed not just on the company, but on their funders - the big international development banks that hand out public money.