Strategic guidelines for ensuring food security of the EAEU

Issue № 6, 2024, article № 1, pages 3-11

Section: Agrarian policy: problems and decisions

Language: Russian

Original language title: СТРАТЕГИЧЕСКИЕ ОРИЕНТИРЫ ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЯ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ ЕАЭС

Keywords: FOOD SECURITY, ECONOMIC ACCESSIBILITY, STRATEGIC GUIDELINES, AGRICULTURE

Abstract: The purpose of this study is to substantiate strategic guidelines aimed at the dynamic development of the EAEU countries, the realization of its advantages aimed at overcoming geopolitical barriers created by unfriendly countries. The study provides a thesis assessment of the main components of food security of the EAEU countries, which showed the lack of active interaction between the participating countries in ensuring food security of the EAEU, significant differentiation of income of the population, its purchasing power, rational norms of food consumption. The EAEU countries are united by a low level of investment in fixed assets of agricultural organizations and a relatively low level of state support, which do not contribute to a stable increase in gross output. In general, there is a lack of a coordinated agricultural policy aimed at collectively ensuring food security by realizing the advantages of the international division of labor. It is obvious that the implementation of the policy in the field of ensuring food security of the EAEU should be carried out not within the framework of fragmentary normative legal acts, but a comprehensive package of direct-acting documents regulating the implementation of state agrarian policy in the EAEU countries. One of such documents should be the EAEU Food Security Doctrine, for the subsequent implementation of which it is necessary to develop a strategy and program for the development of the EAEU agro-industrial complex. As the primary strategic guidelines contributing to ensuring food security of the EAEU, the study substantiates: the formation of legislation in the field of food security; the development of science and technology; increasing agricultural production, taking into account the purchasing power of the population and the possibility of exporting food with high added value; increasing investments in agriculture; infrastructure development; support for agricultural producers; development of export potential.

Authors: Kolesnikov Andrei Viktorovich