SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO ASSESSING FOOD SECURITY AND FOOD INDEPENDENCE OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

DOI 10.33305/223-3

Issue № 3, 2022, article № 1, pages 3-18

Section: Agrarian policy: problems and decisions

Language: Russian

Original language title: НАУЧНЫЕ ПОДХОДЫ К ОЦЕНКЕ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ И ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННОЙ НЕЗАВИСИМОСТИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ

Keywords: INDICATORS AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC AND PHYSICAL AVAILABILITY OF FOOD TO THE POPULATION, FOOD SECURITY

Abstract: In the domestic and foreign scientific literature there is a wide discussion both about the essence of food security and the indicators of its assessment. It should be understood that the main purpose of the food security assessment is to obtain objective information on food production, incomes, purchasing power, consumption of basic types of food, etc. In doing so, the Food Security Scorecard should be structured, well-founded in terms of assessing the main elements of this category, and sound indicators could be calculated on the basis of available information. The article presents discussion approaches regarding the assessment of such components of food security as economic and physical availability of food to the population of the Russian Federation at the national level. When substantiating groups of indicators and indicators, the terminology available in Russian regulatory documents is used, as well as approaches to assessing food security used in the world community, including the EAEU, CIS countries, etc., as well as taking into account the opinions of prominent agricultural scientists in this area. Methodological approaches to assessing food security, as set out in the scientific papers of domestic scientists, do not take into account all areas of food security assessment. Very often in the scientific literature, the indicators substantiated by the authors are not structured into groups, which do not allow an objective description of the state of individual components of food security of the country. In this article, the thesis outlines approaches to the formation and assessment of the main components of food security - economic and physical accessibility of food to the population at the national level.

Authors: Ushachev Ivan Grigorevich, Kolesnikov Andrei Viktorovich