Abstract
This paper provides a rationale for the need to enhance the system of institutions concerned with ensuring food security in a climate of implementation of a strategy of import substitution. The authors examine a set of key factors that can affect the sustainable development of Russia’s agri-food complex and give rise to threats and risks to the nation’s food security. The paper provides an assessment of the current level of the nation’s physical and economic accessibility of food, traces the role of the small agri-business sector, and analyzes the factor of interregional trading barriers in ensuring food security. The authors demonstrate the advisability of cultivating multiformat food retail and developing various forms of food wholesale. The paper provides a rationale for the need to implement a program of internal food assistance to help overcome social risks to food security and stresses the importance of government support for the participation of small retail and agri-business formats in it.
Highlights
The external environment, which influences the development of the national agri-food complex, is quite complex and mobile
Today’s complicated internal and external conditions of economic development require enhancing the system of institutions concerned with ensuring food security and increasing the competitiveness of the national agri-food complex, which is a crucial factor in implementing the policy of import substitution as a response to exacerbating global challenges within the agri-food sector
Implementing internal food assistance is one of the so-called “green basket” measures of government support, based on a classification from the World Trade Organization (WTO), and, it cannot be limited in any way
Summary
The external environment, which influences the development of the national agri-food complex, is quite complex and mobile. Ensuring food security should be viewed as federal and local authorities, as well as civil society institutions, implementing a set of organizational, social and economic, information, and legal measures designed to counteract challenges and threats to national food security. This implies implementing the process of continual scientifically substantiated transformation of the institutional component of food security, which should find reflection in supplementing existing concepts and programs with new metrics and tenets designed to meet the challenges of today and enhancing the strategic management of development of the institutional environment within the agri-food complex [3]. Objective reality regarding the situation in the nation’s agri-food complex and in the national food market signals the need to adjust the above institutions and enhance the interrelationships between them amid the current climate of exacerbating social risks, reflected in declines in people’s real income
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