METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ASSESSING FOOD SECURITY IN THE COUNTRY

Abstract

The authors examined known methodological approaches to the assessment of food security of the country. They have revealed differences in the structure of the indicators between the Doctrine of food safety and applied statisticians. The authors have proposed a set of food security criteria of the country. The authors point out that according to a number of criteria it becomes difficult to follow the progress of the program provisions for the Doctrine of food security for the achievement of food selfsufficiency threshold levels, as presented criteria in the Doctrine and indicators published by statistics bodies are calculated in different ways and have different dimensions.