THE STUDY OF THE FOOD SECURITY OF THE COUNTRY IN THE CONDITIONS OF THE CRISIS

Abstract

The paper examines the country’s food security in a crisis. The main threats to Ukraine’s food security include political threats, excessive import thresholds, food price disparities, poor solvent demand of the population, underdeveloped system for analyzing, assessing and forecasting the dynamics of the agro-food market. To increase the level of food security of the country, state policy is a prerequisite, which can ensure the stable development of the domestic agro-industrial complex against the background of risks and threats.

The main risks that threaten the state of food security of Ukraine in the near future are identified, namely: an increase in the share of cultivated areas under technical crops, which leads to a decrease in the share of cultivated areas for food crops; the absence of analogues of imported equipment and, consequently, the reduction of the pace of modernization of a number of branches of the agro-industrial complex; insufficient development of the infrastructure of transportation, movement of goods and storage of food products; macroeconomic factors and fluctuations of the exchange rate; rising prices for material and technical resources and energy resources; epizootic risks, the manifestation of which is most likely to occur in the event of the emergence and spread in the country of cells of particularly dangerous and quarantine diseases of animals, including those with imported animals — carriers of pathogens or the movement of pathogens from the territory of adjacent states.

It is concluded that ensuring food security is first and foremost a complete self-sufficiency, or maintenance of a critical minimum level of production. The identified food security risks create threats that can lead to non-compliance with the food safety margin. To ensure the sustainability of economic development, implementation of state regulation measures aimed at stabilizing and maintaining food security of the country is necessary.

Security, measures of state regulation, crisis, food safety, risks. It is concluded that ensuring food security is first and foremost a complete self-sufficiency, or maintenance of a critical minimum level of production. The identified food security risks create threats that can lead to non-compliance with the food safety margin. To ensure the sustainability of economic development, implementation of state regulation measures aimed at stabilizing and maintaining food security of the country is necessary.