Approaches to ensuring food security in the conditions of modern challenges

Food security Modern challenges Conceptual scheme FAO principles Evaluation of indicators EnsuringThe relevance of the study is due to the growing role of food security in the conditions of modern risks and the need to modernize scientific approaches to the basic principles of food security and assessment.The purpose of the work was to improve the basic principles of food security and approaches to its assessment in the conditions of modern challenges.The evolution of the concept of food security at the legislative level in Ukraine were analyzed.In particular, the new edition of the Law "On National Security" does not single out food security, unlike the previous one.In retrospect, based on the experience of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the evolution of the fundamental concepts and principles of food security in the world, which cover the directions of availability, access, use and stability, is explored.The expediency of approving the main principles and concepts of food security and its strategic directions at the legislative level has been revealed.The National Methodology for assessing food security needs to be updated, taking into account modern realities.The proposed conceptual model of ensuring food security in the context of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals takes into account internal and external challenges, factors and opportunities and should serve as an effective tool for the formation of agricultural policy directions in the field of food security, improvement of the basic principles of food security.The sequence of actions regarding the implementation of the basic principles and monitoring of food security should contain 10 main directions, including the approval of the concepts and algorithm of its monitoring, adaptation of global approaches to the assessment of food security at the national level.Food security assessment approaches should take into account FAO principles, and the results should be regularly published on government web resources.