Environmental and Legal Support for Food Security in the BRICS Countries

Ensuring food security is a key area of BRICS cooperation. Modern environmental threats and challenges determine the transformation of national models of legal regulation of agricultural activities. The article reveals the priorities of BRICS in the field of food security, a conclusion is made about the need to modernize the food security management system both at the national and regional levels, based on the management of climatic, agro-ecological and other risks. The author’s position on the transition to a model of implementing environmentally friendly agricultural activities is formulated, its content is disclosed. In particular, the production and circulation of organic agricultural products, as well as organic fertilizers. It is substantiated that an integral part of the legal regulation of food security in the Russian Federation should be norms aimed at greening agriculture, minimizing the impact of anthropogenic activities on the environment in the process of implementing agricultural activities, as well as adapting agriculture to climate change. The directions of environmental and legal support for food security in BRICS are formulated.