Scientific Journal of KubSAU

A comprehensive assessment of the state of the agro-industrial complex of Russia is given and its role in ensuring national food security is defined. The main directions of ensuring state food sovereignty in the conditions of global challenges are substantiated. The scheme of interaction between the world and national agroindustrial complex is presented. The main tasks of development of the agrarian sector of the economy are formulated: the growth of production per capita; ensuring physical and economic accessibility of food in the required quality and assortment. It was revealed that the volume of production of basic food products in Russia in 2015 did not reach the indicators of 1990, and the consumption of basic food products in Russia by individual items is significantly lower than the recommended rate. Deficiency of a diet of the population of the country on vegetables and melons, fruit, milk and dairy products is established. The expediency of reforming the agrarian sphere of the Russian economy is proved, including its accelerated adaptation to global challenges. They include geopolitical tensions, deterioration in the external economic environment and a reduction in external demand, mutual economic sanctions, fluctuations in inflation indices, and a reduction in consumer demand. It was concluded that for the increase in the efficiency of the functioning of the agroindustrial complex and the strengthening of national food security, technical and technological modernization of production, improvement of the mechanisms of state support, active development of the innovation environment are needed

This article identifies factors that contribute low efficiency of supranational regulation and providing the world's population with food. It also gives a comprehensive analysis of the current state of global food security problem and priority ways of its solutions