Russia's Food Security Under the Crisis of 2020- 2021

Objective and Subjective Dimensions

Bibliographic Data

ID4920531
AuthorsN I Shagaida (The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, corresponding author), I V Trotsuk (The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration)
Year2022
Volume7
Issue2
Pages93-121
Publication date2022-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRussian Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2500-1809 • E-ISSN: 2949-2564
PublisherRussian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (PUBLISHER • RU)
DOI10.22394/2500-1809-2022-7-2-93-121
OpenAlexW4296718152
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited4

The article presents the results of the assessment of Russia's food security in 2020-2021 based on the available statistical data and sociological monitoring of the population's 'food well-being' conducted since 2015 by the Center for Agro-Food Policy of the RANEPA. The authors believe that the pandemic risks for Russian agriculture were limited, and agricultural production ensured a high level of food self-sufficiency. Although the physical access to food remained at the same level, the economic access has deteriorated; however, Russian families managed to keep their usual diet by redirecting the money saved due to the pandemic restrictions to food consumption. Rising food prices have become the most important problem under the crisis, and to solve it, the Russian government has used a wide range of measures -from reducing duties on food imports and temporary bans on food exports to setting marginal retail prices for certain food products. The sociological assessment of the population's 'food well-being' (the all-Russian telephone survey) showed that the families' requirements to the access to food are rather modest due to the huge credit of patience and sustainable practices of adaptation to the objective social-economic restrictions. Given the achieved indicators of Russia's food self-sufficiency according to the Food Security Doctrine, the state should shift its focus from food self-sufficiency (and increasing exports) to the economic access of the population to food

Agriculture · Business · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Food prices · Food security · Food systems · Geography · Good agricultural practice · Population · Public economics · Agricultural Development and Policies · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Regional Socio-Economic Development Trends

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