Economics and Business Management

Ensuring food security under global challenges

V. Baidala, A. Yakymovska
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Abstract

The article is aimed at assessing the state of food security of Ukraine. The level of food security in Ukraine is checked according to the internal system of parameters and international methodologies. Analysis of the level of food security in Ukraine by the Global Food Security Index shows that it lags far behind not only the leading countries but also from neighboring countries. The situation requires consideration of not only existing but also promising challenges and threats to the maintenance of food security. In the future, this will increase the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises in the global food market. To achieve this goal, general scientific and special research methods were used, the main of which are the following: dialectics, scientific abstraction, statistical, and graphic analysis. The study substantiates the use of a methodology for assessing food security, which involves the calculation of four components and an integral index of food security of the state. As a result of the use of the proposed methodology, an assessment of the state of food security of  Ukraine is implemented. The obtained results served to compare them with similar indicators

Keywords

food safety; food safety indicators; global index of food security; economic security; agrarian sector; food quality

Suggested citation
Baidala, V., & Yakymovska, A. (2024). Ensuring food security under global challenges. Economics and Business Management, 15(1), 56-70. https://doi.org/10.31548/economics15(1).2024.049
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