Assessment of food security in the regions of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation

• Published in: IOP conference series. Earth and environmental science 2021-09, Vol.848 (1), p.12194
• Main Authors: Ruiga, I R, Kovzunova, E S, Bugaeva, S V, Ovchinnikova, Iu I, Sivtsova, E K
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Arctic zone; Comparative analysis; Constituents; Context; Economic policy; Food availability; Food consumption; Food quality; Food security; Ice environments; Polar environments; Regional development; Territorial behavior; Territory; Threat evaluation; Toolkits
• ISSN: 1755-1307; 1755-1315
• DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/848/1/012194

The article is devoted to improving the methodological tools for assessing food security threats to the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, taking into account the territorial specifics (for example, the Arctic regions). The need for a food security assessment procedure in the context of two approaches is indicated: 1) an assessment of the food security of the Arctic zone, as a set of territories of several regions belonging to different federal districts, but united by a single legal status; 2) an assessment of the food security of the Arctic zone, as a part of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, the territories of which are fully or partially referred to the "Arctic" status. As a result of the comparative analysis of approaches to assessing food security in foreign and domestic practice, a system of indicators was formed, differentiated into 6 projections (criteria): physical availability of food; economic affordability of food; sufficiency of food consumption; food quality; transport accessibility; support for the functioning and development of the agro-industrial complex. Approbation of the proposed assessment toolkit was carried out on the example of the regions of the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation, the studied period is from 2012 to 2019. As a result of the assessment, food security threats have been identified both in the context of a separate Arctic entity and the Russian Arctic as a whole. The identified threats provide a basis for the development of specialized tools aimed at improving the regional economic policy in the food sector, taking into account the territorial specifics, as well as increasing the level of food security in the Arctic zone of the Russian Federation.