Risks and Threats to Russia’s Food Security: the Current Situation and Tools for Remedying it

  • Authors

    • E. G. Reshetnikova
    • N. V. Reshetnikova
    • V. D. Iosipenko
    https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.38.24591

    Received date: December 22, 2018

    Accepted date: December 22, 2018

    Published date: December 3, 2018

  • Agri-food complex, Economic accessibility of food, Food assistance, Food security, Food wholesale and retail, Small agri-business.

  • 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.

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    G. Reshetnikova, E., V. Reshetnikova, N., & D. Iosipenko, V. (2018). Risks and Threats to Russia’s Food Security: the Current Situation and Tools for Remedying it. International Journal of Engineering and Technology, 7(4.38), 402-405. https://doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.38.24591