FOOD SECURITY, IMPORT ADVANCE AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF RUSSIAN REGIONS IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS

Issue № 7, 2024, article № 9, pages 87-96

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Language: Russian

Original language title: ПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННАЯ БЕЗОПАСНОСТЬ, ИМПОРТООПЕРЕЖЕНИЕ И САМООБЕСПЕЧЕННОСТЬ РЕГИОНОВ РОССИИ ПРОДУКЦИЕЙ АПК

Keywords: FOOD SECURITY, IMPORT ADVANCE, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, STRATEGIC SUSTAINABILITY, RURAL TERRITORY, AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, SYSTEM, SOCIAL SYSTEM, RURAL WAY OF LIFE, RURAL SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE, RURAL LIFE, TRADITIONAL RURAL ECONOMIC ACTIVITY, PEASANT FARMS, PRIVATE HOUSEHOLD PLOTS, RURAL COOPERATION, RURAL ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, RURAL DIVERSIFICATION ECONOMY, VILLAGE, REPRODUCTION, SMALL-SCALE PRODUCTION, AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, FOOD, COOPERATION, STAFFING, LABOR

Abstract: The article examines the main aspects of food security in Russia in terms of ensuring import advance and self-sufficiency in agricultural products of the regions of the Russia. It is noted that food security is the most important factor in the implementation of the economic, technological and social sovereignty of Russia. However, as interdisciplinary research shows, food security is not guaranteed by compliance with the numerical indicators noted in the corresponding program document – the Doctrine of Food Security of the Russian Federation. The article identifies the main directions of ensuring food security at the system level, including aspects of import advance and regional supply of agricultural products. Based on the analysis of current scientific, methodological and analytical literature, the main factors for ensuring food security are clarified and formulated, and the essential basic principles for achieving it in modern socio-economic and political conditions are identified. Using the example of a number of rural settlements and inter-settlement territories, the article analyzes the features of the development of rural territories as social systems in terms of their self-sufficiency in agricultural products. A separate analysis of the production of agricultural products in the regions of Siberia, the Far East and the Arctic was carried out, based on the need to ensure their strategic sustainability. It is noted that the social development of the village, in particular, the solution of personnel, infrastructure and socially significant issues, plays a significant role in solving the issues of import advance and regional self-sufficiency in agricultural products. At the same time, the work identifies the significant and even decisive importance for the self-sufficiency of regions in agricultural products of such factors as the preservation, development and provision of a rural way of life, a rural social structure, rural life and the conduct of traditional rural economic activities. The work indicates that this factor is decisive from the point of view of both permanent residence in the village and conducting economic activities there. The work formulates a definition and presents the essence and content of the concept of rural lifestyle, identifying its basic system-forming features. The article presents a number of recommendations for promoting a number of benefits identified during the study of implementing a rural lifestyle, preserving the rural social structure, ensuring rural living and conducting economic activities in the countryside. In particular, conclusions were drawn that the rural way of life is a basic feature of modern rural territory and a key factor not only in employment, but also in the regions’ food self-sufficiency. The article separately notes the need to implement proactive measures on peasant (farm) farms (peasant farms), personal subsidiary plots (LPH), as well as in agricultural cooperatives and other associations in the countryside.

Authors: Novichkov Nikolai Vladimirovich, Novikov Vladimir Gennadevich, Sidorenko Sergei Viktorovich, Novichkova Aleksandra Vladimirovna, Savchenko Ekaterina Andreevna