Production of organic products as a modern factor of food security

Abstract

Ensuring food security for all countries of the world has always been a prerequisite for national independence and survival. The article discusses the features of the modern approach to ensuring food security, which involves taking into account not only the indicators of the physical provision of the population with agricultural products, their accessibility and compliance with the requirements of the law, but also indicators that reflect current trends in the people’s desire to improve the quality of their life. The authors substantiated the need to include indicators related to the production, sale and consumption of environmentally friendly products in the definition of food security. Based on the study of economic literature, legislative acts, and statistical sources, it was found that the production of environmentally friendly products for economically developed countries is an important criterion for assessing food security. During the research, it was identified that Russia, being a participant in the market of environmentally friendly products and possessing significant land and forest resources, huge reserves of clean water, has a small share of organic food in the total volume of food production. The study also found that the use of the proportion of certified organic food should be mandatory in assessing the performance of domestic agricultural producers as a factor in improving food security in Russia.