The Sustainable Development of the National Agro-Industrial Complex as the Basis for Ensuring Food Security

Abstract

This study aims to determine the key trends in, as well as focus areas in and ways of, ensuring the proper level of global food security – both at the global level and in specific countries of the Asia-Pacific region. What needs to be used as the basis for the food security of particular countries is the sustainable development of their national agro-industrial complexes, while taking account of the experience of and statistical data for other, more developed, countries and regions in Western Europe and the US. Among the major inferences drawn from this study, the author would like to highlight the following:

• the state of food security varies significantly by countries and regions. For particular countries within the Asia-Pacific region (above all, India, China, and Russia), ensuring the proper level of food security is a most topical objective to be resolved using a systemic approach;

• resolving the objective of ensuring food security in Asian regions ought to be based on the innovation-oriented sustainable development of the national agro-industrial complex using special organizational/economic mechanisms, which should be predicated on a novel understanding of the specificity of the interaction between the state, agro-industrial business, and science;

• resolving the objective of ensuring the proper level of food security serves the achievement of common humanistic goals in the development of modern human civilization and is viewed as one of the key obligations of modern socially-oriented states.

Keywords: agro-industrial complex, sustainable development, food security, triple helix model, institualization, innovations