An Integrated Approach to Evaluating the Efficiency of Performance and Development of Regional Food Complex

Abstract

Important issues of a food complex remain an increase of efficiency and competitiveness in both domestic and foreign markets. The necessity to identify strategic areas of agro policy that provides efficient development of food complex as the basis for food security of the population according to rational nutritional standards by improving physical and economic availability of foodstuff of different social groups, requires the development of appropriate methodological and applied bases for performance and development of food complex. The article focuses on the issue of the possibility of an integrated approach application to evaluating the performance efficiency and development of regional food complex on the basis of the research of the main methodological approaches to this evaluation, taking into account their advantages. Food sector in modern development faced with different challenges and threats represents a strategically important research object both at national and regional levels because it forms a subsistence support of the population. Thus, the correct approach to the evaluation of the regional food complex can substantially accelerate the development of quality of food complex with an emphasis on its timely transformation taking into account the relevance of the integration process. The basic tasks for the evaluation of food complex efficiency have been defined. Firstly, the task of a tactic level is to effectively perform food supply function in the agricultural sector (food security provision). Secondly, strategic task is the social and economic transformation (restructuring, modernization) of the agricultural sector the leading element of which should be the creation of a new production, market and social infrastructure of agricultural and rural areas, a new entrepreneurial class capable of integration into innovation and investment development in market conditions. Therefore the application of a task-oriented approach as a means to solve the formulated tasks has been investigated. Moreover, the expedience of the research for identifying the effective instruments of state control and regulation (primarily softwarebased) through the prism of motivation in food markets of all regions, all agents of agricultural markets. The basic criteria and indicators of a complex evaluation of efficiency and food complex development have been stated.