ECONOMIC ACCESSIBILITY OF FOOD IN THE CENTRAL FEDERAL DISTRICT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

DOI 10.33305/2510-3

Issue № 10, 2025, article № 1, pages 3-12

Section: Agrarian policy: problems and decisions

Language: Russian

Original language title: ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКАЯ ДОСТУПНОСТЬ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВИЯ В ЦФО РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

Keywords: FOOD, AFFORDABILITY, BUDGET SURVEYS, DIETS, CONSUMPTION, RECOMMENDED INTAKE, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, PRICE

Abstract: Five years have passed since the approval of the Doctrine of Food Security of the Russian Federation and the action plan of the Government of the Russian Federation for the implementation of the provisions of the Doctrine of Food Security of the Russian Federation. During this time, the established level of self-sufficiency in basic food products has been achieved, with the exception of dairy products, and the per capita consumption of many of them has either exceeded the recommended standards (bread and meat products, sugar, vegetable oil and eggs) or has come significantly closer to them (potatoes and fish). Average indicators calculated on the basis of production and resource distribution balances provide only a general idea of the level and dynamics of food consumption, while according to the provisions of the Doctrine, physical and economic accessibility of food should be achieved "in all populated areas and by every citizen of the country". In this regard, the regional and socio-economic aspects of studying the food problem using data from budgetary surveys of households are of particular importance. The combined use of balance calculations and budgetary data makes it possible to conduct a complete and comprehensive study of food security. The study of the specifics of the functioning of regional agro-food markets is due, on the one hand, to the search for an answer to the question of the possibilities of reducing the cost of the food basket, including through specialization of the production of agricultural raw materials and food within the boundaries of the Central Federal District and, on the other hand, to the need to replicate the accumulated knowledge on achieving threshold values of indicators of physical and economic availability of food products.

Authors: Brylev Aleksandr Alekseevich, Turchaeva Irina Nikolaevna