FINANCIAL ASSESSMENT OF FOOD SECURITY IN THE REGION

Abstract

The article presents the results of the financial assessment of the region's food security based on the proven author's methodology based on the calculation of a number of relative indicators. The relevance and versatility of food security as an object of public administration requires the use of diverse methods for conducting analytical procedures in order to identify "pain points" and search for reserves for increasing the efficiency of regulation. In the context of a hybrid war, food security is a direction of pressure from unfriendly countries to form social tensions and general destabilization of the public space. In this regard, it is important to use preventive tools of public administration, the main ones on the information base obtained as a result of diagnostics of current socio-economic indicators. The most important element of food security is the economic availability of food products, the assessment of which is proposed to be carried out on the basis of a number of financial indicators. The significance of diagnostics of the financial component is determined by the existing macroeconomic turbulence, which resulted in a decrease in the real purchasing power of the population's cash income and a sharp inflationary increase in the cost of food products. The socio-economic space of Russia is characterized by a significant level of differentiation, which necessitates a financial assessment of food security in the regional context. The authors substantiate the relevance of food security analysis in the current conditions of objectively present geopolitical risks, propose a methodology for financial assessment of food security based on the use of a number of relative index indicators, and perform diagnostics of food security in the Republic of Tatarstan based on the developed financial indicators taking into account territorial socio-economic specifics. The results of the conducted research can serve as an information base for making management decisions in the regional management system aimed at increasing the financial availability of food space for the population taking into account territorial socio-economic specifics.