Ensuring food security is a necessary condition for the viability of rural areas in the region

Issue № 8, 2024, article № 2, pages 16-24

Section: Agrarian policy: problems and decisions

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЕ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ – НЕОБХОДИМОЕ УСЛОВИЕ ЖИЗНЕСПОСОБНОСТИ СЕЛЬСКИХ ТЕРРИТОРИЙ РЕГИОНА

Keywords: AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE, SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, FOOD SECURITY, RURAL DEVELOPMENT, SMALL BUSINESS, EFFECTIVE MANAGEMENT, POTENTIAL OF THE TERRITORY, ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

Abstract: In the study, based on the study of domestic and foreign experience, an analysis of the state of rural social and industrial infrastructure, the activities of small businesses in the field of agriculture, the prospects for achieving sustainable development, the effectiveness of growing crops, food security components as a necessary condition for ensuring national security was carried out. Food security is based on a special state of socio-economic development, which ensures the food independence of the territory, the ability of the territory to self-supply agricultural products to the population living on it. Thus, food security is one of the most important components of sustainable rural development, a factor in the viability of agriculture (rural areas). Attention is focused on the serious obstacle to the preservation of agriculture (rural areas) – manifestations of persistence – technological backwardness of existing enterprises, the need to introduce processes aimed at creating new industries – the results of research and innovation activities; the importance of the environmental component of sustainable rural development, since agriculture around the world is faced with serious practices of improper waste management their activities. Since the viability of the territory is ensured by the integration of three components of sustainable development of the territory (social equality, ecological balance, economic stability), and food security is closely related to the level of socio-economic development of the territory, the effect of «persistence» will also manifest itself through factors that hinder food security. The purpose of the article is to interpret the phenomenon of «persistence» in relation to the viability of rural areas, in particular to the ability of territories to ensure food security. The prospects for ensuring the viability of the territory and achieving sustainable development of the territory are determined not only by the targeted impact of management entities, but also depend on the degree of «compatibility» and the applicability of reforms to territories. The author's concept of interpreting the phenomenon of «persistence» in relation to the socio-economic development of territories is proposed in order to reflect the phenomenon in which the territory that has undergone reform retains its socio-economic characteristics and properties for a long time: when making any changes to the structure of the territory, they retain «in memory» all their previous states and access to these states have components and constituents of this territory. A transformed view of the achieved level of sustainable development is presented, taking into account the effect of persistence, based on the calculation of levels: economic stability, ecological equilibrium, social equality, institutionalism and the political system.

Authors: Arzumanian Misak Spartakovich