Principle of Multi-Sectoral Economic Structure for Ensuring Food Security and Strategic Sustainability of Rural Areas

The article considers the main directions of solving the problem of food security through ensuring the diversification of the rural economy and the implementation of the principle of a multi-sectoral structure of the rural economy. Based on the analysis of current scientific and methodological literature, the definition of a number of concepts has been clarified and formulated: among them: rural territory, local economy, diversification of the rural economy, multi-sectoral structure of the rural economy, strategic sustainability of rural territories, etc. Based on the analysis of factual materials, the article defines the main directions of diversification of the rural economy, identifies the main industries and areas of activity of the multi-sectoral structure of the rural economy, both related to the agro-industrial complex and rural life, and having an indirect relation to them. It is noted that support and development of entrepreneurship in rural areas, as well as industries that allow small-scale production in rural areas, are essential for ensuring the diversifi cation of the rural economy. The work also indicates the essential importance for diversification of the rural economy of such a factor as the preservation, development and provision of a rural way of life, rural social structure, rural life, support of traditional spiritual and moral values and traditional rural economic activity. The article formulates a number of recommendations for ensuring the diversification of the rural economy and the implementation of appropriate measures of state support for the Russian village. In particular, it concludes that from the point of view of ensuring food security and strategic sustainability of rural areas, it is extremely important for the state to resolve the main issues of employment and diversification of the rural economy with the creation of new jobs and new rural industries based on the principle of a multi-sectoral structure of the rural economy.