Model of Food Security in the Russian Federation

Abstract

Although sustainable food security is a national and transnational concern, there are still different ways to measure it. The purpose of this study was to determine a conceptual model capable of measuring all aspects of food security in the country. A definite answer to these difficulties is the development of the theory of food security and the development of new tools to protect the population from the hazards and threats. In this paper, the proposed model of the food sector of economic security, which provides the choice of the optimal solution for the selected criteria, which is based on the recognition of the multi-subject composition of its participants (the state, its constituent regional entities, enterprises and their integrated entities, households) between them, implemented using the methods of hierarchical coordination and spontaneous order, a combination of public and private interests. The targets for the functioning of the food sector as the most important component of the system of economic security are: physical and economic accessibility of food for various categories of the population, characterized by the necessary quantity, assortment and quality with a certain level of solvency of consumers; food supply of the population; protection of domestic producers from import dependence in the markets of final food products and resources for their production.