The strategic directions of Russia's economic development presuppose the existence of state programs, the transition from the expert-raw material type to the innovative type. A qualitatively new level of information processing opens up new development opportunities as a result of an increase in the speed of information processing throughout the entire life cycle of agricultural production. Sustainable development is measured by production on the territory and its efficiency in relation to the country's food security. Since the territories are not only producers of products, but also a complex socio-economic structure that functions according to certain laws, rules and traditions, a kind of habitat for residents. To a large extent, the sustainable development of territories depends on the level of development of production, implements the sustainable development of the economy. The state regulates the sustainable development of territories in order to support production as the main element of processes, controlling its development, supporting domestic producers, and performs one of the most important state functions, which is a macroeconomic problem of research of the territorial complex. Consequently, there is a dialectical relationship between the process of economic stabilization and the sustainable development of territories, which requires the development of research approaches. The search for new approaches to the development of territories is a particularly important circumstance at the present stage. A full-fledged system of economic, mathematical, structural modeling allows us to obtain predictive estimates in the context of food security indicators, based on current trends, global challenges and changes.