FOOD SECURITY CONCEPTS: HISTORICAL EVOLUTION AND CURRENT STATE

The article deals with the evolution of the concept of food security and provision of the population with food, which we have classified into five stages. By now, a new direction of security in the system of national security has fully formed - food security, with its categorical apparatus, its theoretical and methodological basis and practical approaches to providing the population with food. It is noted that the peculiarity of all stages of food security is that it is not static, but dynamically developing. The modern, fifth stage of food security development has turned out to be the most complicated and in modern time frames it has become a weapon of global confrontation, food supplies from a number of countries are blocked. In this situation there is only one way out - to ensure food security at the level of national states.