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What is Food Independence

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Handbook of Research on Globalized Agricultural Trade and New Challenges for Food Security
A sustainable domestic food production in the volumes not less than the established threshold levels of its share in the commodity resources of the domestic market of relevant products.
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Food Security and Self-Sufficiency as a Basis for National Security and Sovereignty: Evidence From Russia
Kirill Zemliak (Khabarovsk State University of Economics and Law, Russia), Anna Zhebo (Khabarovsk State University of Economics and Law, Russia), and Aleksey Aleshkov (Khabarovsk State University of Economics and Law, Russia)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1042-1.ch017
Abstract
The study discusses one of the global problems of mankind—ensuring food security for the population. The historical context of the food problem, the formation of the concept of food security, the approaches of the world community and individual countries to its provision and evaluation are considered. The case of Russia reveals the role of food security in ensuring economic, social, and political security and sovereignty of a state. Special attention is paid to the state of agriculture in Russia as a source of raw materials for ensuring food security, problems of its development, and ways to solve them. The place of Russia in ensuring the food security of the world is shown.
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