ENSURING FOOD SECURITY IN UKRAINE IN THE CONDITIONS OF A CHANGING SECURITY ENVIRONMENT

Abstract

It has been proved that the right to decent food, which refers specifically to socio-economic human rights, is guaranteed and ensured within the framework of the implementation of the state food policy. The social function of the country can be structurally represented as a complex of parts, each of which finds expression in a specific direction of the country's social activity. Ensuring food security is one of these elements, and in today's conditions, it is of great relevance for Ukraine. The main purpose of the study is to characterize the features of ensuring food security in Ukraine in the conditions of a changing security environment. Based on the results of the study, the key features of the state of food security in Ukraine were identified. It has been determined that the food security of Ukraine in general and its constituent entities, in particular, can be defined as an integral factor in maintaining national sovereignty, the main component of the state demographic policy in order to ensure the quality of high living standards of the population, not only in the medium term, but also in the long term. It has been established that ensuring an adequate level of food security stimulates the state's economy both through scientific and technological progress and through the support of food producers, stimulating them to improve technology. Consequently, the growth of real incomes of the population, purchasing power, and a stable economic situation in the state play a very important role. It is determined that food security consists of the ability of the state, individual institutions, the agro-industrial complex, farms to ensure the production of products available to all categories of citizens. Food security is a guaranteed volume of food required and supplied by internal sources of consumption by the state and its regions. The key elements of ensuring food security in Ukraine in the conditions of a changing security environment have been studied.