ENSURING FOOD INDEPENDENCE OF THE COUNTRY IS A BASIS OF ITS FOOD SECURITY

Issue № 11, 2015, article № 1, pages 2-12

Section: Program-target management of development of agricultural production

Language: Russian

Original language title: ОБЕСПЕЧЕНИЕ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННОЙ НЕЗАВИСИМОСТИ СТРАНЫ - ОСНОВА ЕЕ ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ

Keywords: FOOD SECURITY, FOOD INDEPENDENCE, AGRARIAN SPHERE OF ECONOMY, FOODS IMPORT AND EXPORT OF FOODSTUFFS AND AGRICULTURAL RAW MATERIALS, IMPORT SUBSTITUTION OF

Abstract: The article reveals the peculiarities of ensuring food independence of the country as the basis for its food security in the modern socio-economic conditions. The author considers food security as the complex concept including food independence and ensuring availability of the food for population. The role of the national agrarian Policy in providing the population domestic food at the expense the development of the agrarian sector of the economy and its foundations of agriculture is shown. There are noted branch results: the advancing growth rates of production of agriculture in comparison with growth rates of gross domestic product; high variability of rates of development of branch; essential reduction of a gap between import and export of foodstuff and agricultural raw materials; stagnation of process of import substitution in the domestic agro food market, especially on meat-and-milk products; high dependence of separate subsectors of agriculture, food and processing industry on import basic means of production. The necessity of developing a new state agrarian policy and organizational and economic mechanism of its realization in the conditions of regional and global integration is proved, as well as actualization Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation. Proposals on implementation strategic objectives of the agrarian sector of the economy, oriented to ensuring the food independence of the country, are given.

Authors: Altukhov Anatolii Ivanovich