Assessment of national food security in the export orientation of russian agriculture

Issue № 3, 2021, article № 2, pages 13-19

Section: Agrarian policy: problems and decisions

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОЦЕНКА НАЦИОНАЛЬНОЙ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ ПРИ ЭКСПОРТНОЙ ОРИЕНТАЦИИ СЕЛЬСКОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА РОССИИ

Keywords: AGRICULTURE, AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, FOOD SECURITY, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, AGRICULTURAL POLICY, IMPORT SUBSTITUTION, EXPORT ORIENTATION, DOCTRINE, FOOD POLICY

Abstract: Official criteria and indicators of food security, primarily indicators of food sovereignty and economic availability of food, are important for realizing the export potential of the agro-industrial complex without compromising food self-sufficiency. The paper calculates the level of food self-sufficiency for certain types of agricultural products and food on the basis of updated balance of food resources. The economic availability of certain types of food is estimated. The possibility of a formal increase in the values of food self-sufficiency indicators due to a decrease in food consumption in the country against the background of export growth is revealed. In this circumstance, it is a formal reduction in the index of economic access to food due to lack of relevant products in the domestic market, regardless of the level of prices and incomes. It is proved that in the Doctrine of Food Security, it is advisable to fix the need to maintain the economic availability of food while realizing the export potential of the agro-industrial complex. When assessing the level of food self-sufficiency, it is advisable to focus not on the actual consumption of certain types of food, but on the maximum of actual and rational consumption. Calculations of the level of food self-sufficiency with grain, potatoes, milk, meat, fish, vegetables, fruits, eggs, sugar and vegetable oil carried out according to the updated methodology.

Authors: Belugin Aleksei IUrevich, Belugina Tatiana Aleksandrovna