Agrarian Economy 2022 Т. 15 № 1-2: 3-8
Assessment of the food security risks in Ukraine in conditions of martial law
Zelisko N., Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-2467-5585
Markovych N., Candidate of Economic Sciences, acting Associate Professor
ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6725-1355
Vasylyna O., Candidate of Economic Sciences, Associate Professor
ORCID ID: 0000-0003-2124-3792
Lviv National Environmental University
ANNOTATION
The article determines relevance of the study of the concept of food security as a component of economic security. The scientific works on the concept of food security are considered and systematized. It is determined that food security of population is the priority of each state policy of any country as well as the object of scientific research. The key threats to Ukraine's food security are studied in the work.
Modern extremely complex realities and functioning of Ukraine's economy in martial law, in particular its agrarian component, require development of crucially different approaches to possible directions and ways to achieve the resource and economic potential of the agricultural sector during the war.
The war has demonstrated vulnerability of the national and global food systems to anthropogenic (the impact of armed conflict), economic (rising world food prices) and natural factors (increasing impact of crop failures due to disruption of global food supplies). In addition, the war will reduce food security in many countries.
About a third of Ukraine's fields remain unfit for sowing due to hostilities. As a result, the continuation of the war will cause profound economic shocks that will affect liquidity of agricultural producers, increase the global demand for agricultural products, reduce food security in many countries, rise food prices and accelerates inflation.
The war requires swift response, accompanied by repelling the armed aggression and supporting the economy. The rules of regulation of land relations in peacetime, when the procedures for granting land last for months, prove their incapacity and unsuitability for new realities in a state of martial law. Therefore, solution of many problems of Ukraine's economy during the war, including agriculture, directly depends on the adequacy of managerial decisions on the provision of land for appropriate purposes, land management and registration of land rights.
KEY WORDS
food security, food security system, food, self-sufficiency, mechanisms, national food security strategy, martial law
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