PRESENT-DAY THREATS AND RISKS IN THE SPHERE OF FOOD SECURITY

Abstract

The relevance of the topic of the article is conditioned by the need for constant monitoring of the Russia's food security, as well as for identifying factors negatively affecting it and searching for optimal ways of solving emerging problems.

The purpose of the article is to identify key problems of the current state of the agro-food complex that can restrain its sustainable innovative development in a strategic perspective.

The subject of the study is a comprehensive analysis of the main threats and risks in the field of the Russia’s food security.

Methods of research. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study is the works of the classics of economic science, of modern domestic and foreign economists, researching sustainable development of the agro-food complex, the implementation of the policy of import substitution. The author uses both general scientific methods of cognition and traditional methods of economic analysis.

Main results. The main groups of factors that have a negative impact on the sustainable development of Russia's agro-food complex and create threats and risks for ensuring the state's food security are systematized. The factor of elasticity of demand and supply of food in ensuring food security is considered. The buffer role of small business patterns in the agro-food complex in conditions of crisis phenomena is shown. Regional aspects of ensuring food security, interregional trade barriers being a serious obstacle to the functioning of a balanced system of the agro-food complex are explored.

Conclusions. The priority directions of increasing the availability of the agro-food products are formulated. It is noted that the growth of export of agro-food products has a strategically important macroeconomic significance for reaching an economically safe level of the country's trade balance. It is substantiated that the system of monitoring the state of food security needs improvement in two directions: updating the choice of the information base and improving comparability with the food security parameters calculated by international organizations.