ENSURING FOOD SECURITY IN PANDEMIC CONDITIONS COVID-19

DOI 10.32651/212-37

Issue № 2, 2021, article № 5, pages 37-41

Section: Problems of efficient management

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЕ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ В УСЛОВИЯХ ПАНДЕМИИ COVID-19

Keywords: FOOD SYSTEM, FOOD SECURITY, PUBLIC SUPPORT, PRICES, MONITORING, PANDEMIC, EPIDEMIOLOGICAL CONSTRAINTS

Abstract: The impact of the epidemic had COVID-19 affected all, without exception, aspects of the life of modern society, without bypassing the production system, which contained a number of significant shortcomings. Producers and consumers were separated by long and rigid supply chains, leading to forced food losses and cost distortions, and the most vulnerable people felt the problem of the physical and price tolerance of healthy and nutritious products. Food security was a complex and multidimensional problem that was both international and domestic in nature and affected every individual, every social group and could only be resolved if it was guaranteed by law. Food security is ensured through the development of bio-technologies and import substitution for basic food products, as well as by preventing the depletion of land resources, as well as the reduction of agricultural land and arable land, the seizure of the national grain market by foreign companies, and the uncontrolled distribution of food products obtained from genetically modified plants using genetically modified microorganisms. The work proposes an author's interpretation of the definition of "food security." The authors presented and summarized the indicators of food security, summarized the foreign experience of epidemiological trends affecting the problems of food security. The impact of the pandemic on the vital aspects of the region's life, the food system had also been analysed, and prices of basic foodstuffs in the Voronezh region had been monitored under epidemiological restrictions.

Authors: Salnikova Elena Viktorovna, Otinova Marina Evgenevna, Polunina Natalia IUrevna