Russia's food independence: current state, security risks and promising trends

According to the UN, in 2021, the number of hungry people in the world reached a record of 828 million people. This indicator is constantly increasing, which brings the problem of food security to the level of the most priority tasks of the strategic development of all mankind. Russia has a great potential for agricultural and agro-industrial production (natural, labour, technical and technological, organizational and managerial, innovation and investment, regulatory and legal). At the moment, Russia fully provides itself with key positions of food products (grain, vegetable oil, sugar, meat, fish); and there is a growing trend in the exports of Russian food products to world markets. The current situation, when the West is trying to isolate Russia from the global food system, may lead to the fact that the problems of hunger and strengthening global food security will never be solved. Over time, this can lead to a sharp shortage of food, an increase in the number of hungry people, global migration of peoples and, as a result, global social, economic, political and military tensions. The authors studied the legal framework for regulating the development of agro-industrial production in the Russian Federation. The assessment of key indicators of the agriculture and the food market development was given. The following indicators were used: production indices, production volumes (in monetary and physical terms), investments, prices, state support (subsidies, subsidies, concessional lending, etc.), the level of self-sufficiency of socially significant food groups, food consumption per capita, imports, exports. The comparison of actual data with planned indicators was carried out. Promising directions for the agroindustrial complex development in the Russian Federation were considered. The following areas were taken into account: increasing investment attractiveness, technical and technological modernization, breeding and seed production, digitalization of agriculture, increasing export potential, stabilization of the epizootic situation.

food policy and security, agricultural raw materials and food market, organization and management, exports and imports, problems and threats, strategies and programs, forecasts and prospects