Evaluating The Strategic Potential of Azerbaijan’s Food‎Industry: Integrating Organic Development Pathways and ‎‎“Smart” Technologies for Food Security in The Era of Global ‎Challenges

  • Authors

    • Farid Fikrat oğlu Babayev Ph.D. in Economic Sciences, Associate Professor, Department of World Economy, Baku State University of Baku, Azerbaijan
    https://doi.org/10.14419/39e30d88

    Received date: September 30, 2025

    Accepted date: November 17, 2025

    Published date: November 28, 2025

  • Food Security; Smart Technologies; Organic Production; Food Industry; Azerbaijan; Innovation; Agro-Industrial Development

  • Abstract

    This study examines the strategic potential and structural challenges of Azerbaijan’s food industry within the broader global context of food ‎security, climate stress, and the accelerating transition toward high-technology agriculture. The research highlights the systemic difficulties faced ‎by the international community in meeting the nutritional needs of a rapidly growing population, emphasizing the increasing relevance of ‎‎“smart” technologies, organic food production, and strengthened international cooperation. The Covid-19 pandemic further amplified global ‎vulnerabilities, revealing critical weaknesses in supply chains and reaffirming the necessity of resilient, technology-driven agro-industrial systems. ‎Empirical findings indicate that Azerbaijan possesses substantial capacity for expanding organic food production through efficient use of land ‎and water resources, particularly in the Karabakh and East Zangazur economic regions. Nevertheless, the sector continues to face constraints, ‎including limited innovation uptake, slow technology transfer, and insufficient mechanisms to promote investment in modern organic ‎production. The study argues that Azerbaijan’s transition toward a sustainable and competitive food industry requires an integrated national ‎strategy grounded in advanced agricultural technologies, strengthened institutional frameworks, and transparent governance mechanisms. The ‎research contributes to contemporary debates on food security by presenting policy recommendations aimed at enhancing innovation, ‎improving regulatory transparency, and increasing the availability of high-quality, safe, and organic food products‎.

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    Babayev, F. F. oğlu . (2025). Evaluating The Strategic Potential of Azerbaijan’s Food‎Industry: Integrating Organic Development Pathways and ‎‎“Smart” Technologies for Food Security in The Era of Global ‎Challenges. International Journal of Accounting and Economics Studies, 12(7), 745-756. https://doi.org/10.14419/39e30d88