Food security at the regional level

Abstract

As a rule, in the periods of positive dynamics of economic development, the attitudes toward non-interference of the state in economic processes were dominant and when the next phase came, the recession of production, especially with signs of stagflation, they were replaced by diametrically opposed views that proved the need for active state intervention in the processes of sustainable reproduction of the economy. All over the world, states influence the agro-food production complex, and agricultural products and food market. However, the ways and tools of such influence depend on the goals to be achieved through such regulation. World experience in the development of market economy proves that as a result of specific features, agriculture and the food market are not self-regulating systems. This is due primarily to the conservatism and inertia of agriculture as a production system, as well as low elasticity of demand for agricultural products and high elasticity of prices for it. The failure of the market mechanism to direct the development of economic entities of different industries and regions to one common goal calls for state intervention in all spheres of the economy the most important of which is agriculture.