TRENDS IN THE FORMATION OF THE GLOBAL AGRO-FOOD COMPLEX IN THE CONTEXT OF BRICS EXPANSION AND GLOBAL MARKET TRANSFORMATION

Issue № 8, 2025, article № 1, pages 3-14

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Language: Russian

Original language title: ТЕНДЕНЦИИ ФОРМИРОВАНИЯ МИРОВОГО АГРОПРОДОВОЛЬСТВЕННОГО КОМПЛЕКСА В УСЛОВИЯХ РАСШИРЕНИЯ БРИКС И ГЛОБАЛЬНОЙ ТРАНСФОРМАЦИИ РЫНКОВ

Keywords: AGRO-FOOD COMPLEX, AGRICULTURE, AGRO-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, GLOBAL SYSTEM, WORLD ECONOMY, GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION, MARKETS, FOOD, BRICS, GLOBAL SOUTH, GLOBAL EAST, TRENDS IN THE FORMATION OF WORLD MARKETS, TECHNOLOGIZATION, POLYCENTRISM, CLUSTERING, LOGISTICS, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, TECHNOLOGY EXPORT, GLOBAL CHALLENGES

Abstract: The article presents a rationale for the main trends in the formation of the global agro-food complex against the backdrop of the expansion and development of BRICS. Based on the analysis of current scientific, methodological and analytical literature, as well as statistical and regulatory information, the work examines and clarifies the concepts of "global transformation of markets", "global economic system", "global agro-food complex", etc. The enormous role of the BRICS association as a basic institutional basis for the development and increase in the global significance of the countries of the Global South and the Global East is noted. From the point of view of a systems approach, the article presents a rationale for the fact that the global agro-food complex is an emerging global economic system, and the main systemic features of this systemic phenomenon are noted. It is noted that the formation of this complex occurs on the basis of several classes of trends. Thus, the work presents a classification of these trends from the point of view of various criteria. The need for classification from the point of view of the universality or space of manifestation of these trends is separately substantiated. From this point of view, general (universal), industry-wide and specific industry trends in the formation of the global agro-food complex are identified. In particular, the trends of polycentrism and the increasing role of the BRICS countries and their partners, clustering, technologization, the growing importance of logistics, changes in the consumption structure in the BRICS countries, the transfer of profit centers from the countries of the collective West to the states of the Global South and Global East, etc. are substantiated. Also, the work formulates the main directions of development of the BRICS association, noting its fundamental role in the formation of the global agro-food complex in the context of the global transformation of the world economy and new global challenges.

Authors: Paptsov Andrei Gennadevich, Novichkov Nikolai Vladimirovich