SOVEREIGN FOOD POTENTIAL AS THE BASIS OF THE COUNTRY'S FOOD SECURITY

Sukhanova Irina Fedorovna, Sannikova Marina Olegovna

The Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation, being a strategic planning document, establishes the concept of ensuring the country's food security, asserting food independence as the foundation. In turn, food independence is determined by the level of self-sufficiency with the main types of agricultural products, raw materials and food. The article discusses the disadvantages of such a concept, primarily related to the lack of consideration of the problem of critical import dependence of production, which has recently worsened with the difficulty or destruction of traditional foreign economic relations. In this connection, the purpose of this study is to revise the concept of ensuring food security in Russia, which, according to the authors, should be based on reducing the import dependence of agricultural production, raw materials and food. In the course of the work, the authors proposed a structural and logical representation and identified the internal links of the food security paradigm, which allowed us to substantiate the importance of food potential as the foundation of food security. Being a set of productive forces and economic relations aimed at providing agricultural products, raw materials and foodstuffs to the domestic needs of the country, as well as external demand, the food potential in order to ensure food independence must be protected from external intentional or unintended influences. In this regard, the authors substantiate that food security should be based on the development of food potential, which has the property of sovereignty. In the development of this provision, the definition of the sovereign food potential of Russia is proposed, which is a system that ensures the country's food security on the basis of a combination of productive forces and economic relations that are under national control and/or belong to the economic and legal field of the country.

Keywords:food security, food independence, sovereign food potential, agricultural production, food production, import dependence