Paradoxical Emergence of the Food Security Problem in Times of Current Challenges: from the General to the Particular

Abstract

Complete satisfaction of essential needs of the population is a key factor of any economic system sustainability.The article studies specific features of the food security problem, identifies paradoxes of its emergence, focuses on attaining quality parameters in resolving problems of food security. The author carries out comparative analysis of certain aspects of global and national food security and investigates implementation of the Food Security Doctrine of the Russian Federation. The multi-aspect character of the food security problem was grounded and the necessity of its systematic study was underlined. Apart from that, the article provides hypothetic forecasts that current trends of dominance of big economic forms in the structure of agricultural produce output could cause serious structural changes in the whole economic system, reduce the importance of market mechanisms and result in decreasing biodiversity in food supply.