THE ROLE OF SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT IN ENSURING FOOD SECURITY

The article examines the issues of increasing the sustainability of agricultural producers as the main factor in ensuring food security in the context of instability of international relations and markets for means of production and food. This problem is studied at the international, state, regional and local levels. For this purpose, the criteria and corresponding systems of indicators are substantiated, as well as indicators of the state of food security at various levels of management: federal, regional, local. The features of their application are shown depending on natural and climatic conditions and changes in ecological systems, on the technogenic impact of man on the environment, on the territorial location and specialization of agricultural production, its material and technical base and staffing.