Том 10, № 1 (2023)

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.

The article examines the nature, principles and mechanisms of development and support of integrated agro-industrial structures based on the cluster approach as a constructive direction of ensuring national food security. The model of the economic mechanism of agro-industrial integration in the region and the scheme of the mutual influence mechanism of the regional environment and the agro-industrial cluster with the justification of the integral synergetic effect of agro-industrial clustering are presented. A system of measures for the development and implementation of cluster projects for agro-industrial protoclusters of domestic regions and their transformation into full-fledged clusters is proposed. The importance of developing long-term strategies for these projects is substantiated. The prevailing institutional conditions, the characteristics of productive forces and their inertia and heterogeneity were taken into account. The policy of supporting regional agro-industrial clusters should be implemented in conjunction with territorial, industrial, innovation and other policies and should not be unified.FUNDING:The article was prepared within the framework of research (topic registration No. 122041200050-5).

Based on the system and process approaches, the results of the formalization of business models' basic variants that reflect the strategic priorities of the management system of wholesale food markets in the context of national food security strategies are presented. The Osterwalder framework was chosen as the basis of the analysis. This allows assessing the adaptive abilities of business models of wholesale and food markets and highlighting model-forming effects. Nine blocks of the model have been formalized. They are combined into four business areas: customers, offer (product or service), necessary infrastructure and financial viability. The authors proposed a new block "key processes" as the main element reflecting the relationship of the company with its internal structure, processes and systems. The change of business models in different countries is partly explained by the achievement of the initially set strategic goal and the transformation of wholesale food markets in the course of their evolution into multitasking platforms for comprehensive business development.

The sustainability of a globally competitive economy is determined by the transition to a new stage of socio-economic reproduction relations. It is one of the main strategic aspects of state policy and the real sector of the economy. An important integral role in the new paradigm of economic relations is played by the agro-industrial complex as an industry that ensures the satisfaction of vital primary needs of the population. The relevance of the research is determined by the need to develop an effective mechanism for managing the sustainable development of agricultural organizations from the standpoint of harmonizing the main components of the system: economic, social and environmental ones. The author examines the problems of developing and implementing anti-crisis strategies of agricultural production. The author takes into account the growth of requests for environmentally friendly food and the consumers' increasing demands for agricultural products, as well as the increasing role of agricultural organizations as the basis of the economic link in the sustainable development of the Russian economy. Dynamic changes in the external and internal environment intensify the search for new strategic concepts and effective tools to achieve the sustainable development goals of agricultural producers and the agricultural industry.The algorithm for choosing strategies for the development of the agro-industrial complex will be of interest to specialists in the field of the agricultural sector and anti-crisis managers.

This article analyzes the state of the modern market of ecoproducts in the world and compares various indicators of popularity and consumption of ecoproducts in the most developed countries in this direction. The aurthors also examine the laws of the Russian Federation aimed at helping farmers and trends in the development of the green economy. Nowadays, the issue of ecology is particularly acute. Ecology has become a trend of recent decades, which has included not only the production of food and cosmetics, but also a careful attitude to resources and a conscious approach to solving the garbage problem and many other aspects. The production of biological products is a new direction in agriculture, which appeared due to the popularity of caring for the environment. The article will be useful to those who are interested in the section of the green economy, those who are going to engage in the production of ecoproducts abroad or in Russia, as well as those who promote an ecological approach in life.

The relevance of the topic chosen for the study is justified by the aggravation of the agenda around the world fertilizer market. This helps to attract more attention to the study of trends and sustainability factors of the global fertilizer market.The article analyzes the demand for the main types of fertilizers. The most attractive markets for fertilizer exports from Russia have been identified within the framework of the main trends in international relations. The main stability factors of the global fertilizer market, as well as individual situations that hinder the sustainable development of the fertilizer industry, are described. Examples of diversification of sales markets in the Asia-Pacific and African directions are considered. Trends and reasons for the sustainability of Russian fertilizer supplies within the EAEU have been identified.The main trade and economic relations and trends at the current stage of the world fertilizer market development are presented. Based on the structural and dynamic analysis of global fertilizer consumption and the causes of changes in the dynamics and structure of supplies, the factors of stability of the global fertilizer market are identified.

Currently, both the range of agricultural enterprises using certain elements of digital technologies and the range of digital devices used in the industry are expanding. Therefore, there is an increasing need for the training of qualified managerial personnel to perform various types of work in the digital segment of the economy, the development of vocational training and retraining, the acquisition of new competencies and advanced training of employees in modern organizations. An assessment of the readiness of young specialists to receive and develop digital competencies in the conditions of digitalisation of the agro-industrial complex was carried out. The key actors of human capital development are identified; and the mechanism of formation and use of human capital in the conditions of digitalisation of agricultural organizations is revealed. The results obtained can be used in the development of regional programs to improve the quality of staffing in the regional agro-industrial complex, in the work of recruitment services of enterprises and district departments of agriculture, agricultural education institutions that form educational programs and provide educational services in the region amidst digitalisation.