Russia’s food self-sufficiency and food security: an assessment

Wegren, Stephen K.; Elvestad, Christel

doi:10.1080/14631377.2018.1470854

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“…The latter incorporates a wider range of parameters of food availability, economic access to adequate nutrition, utilization of nutrients, and stability of food supply [ 4 ]. While Wegren and Elvestad [ 34 ], Meskhia [ 35 ], Clapp [ 36 ], and Saidi and Diouri [ 37 ], among others, argue that food security is about establishing a balance between domestic production and imports, many studies categorize food security as agricultural [ 38 , 39 ], economic [ 40 , 41 ], or health [ 42 , 43 , 44 ] issues rather than as a trade one.…”

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Trade and Economic Aspects of Food Security: Evidence from 45 Developing Countries

Erokhin

Tianming

2020

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The stability of food supply chains is crucial to the food security of people around the world. Since the beginning of 2020, this stability has been undergoing one of the most vigorous pressure tests ever due to the COVID-19 outbreak. From a mere health issue, the pandemic has turned into an economic threat to food security globally in the forms of lockdowns, economic decline, food trade restrictions, and rising food inflation. It is safe to assume that the novel health crisis has badly struck the least developed and developing economies, where people are particularly vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition. However, due to the recency of the COVID-19 problem, the impacts of macroeconomic fluctuations on food insecurity have remained scantily explored. In this study, the authors attempted to bridge this gap by revealing interactions between the food security status of people and the dynamics of COVID-19 cases, food trade, food inflation, and currency volatilities. The study was performed in the cases of 45 developing economies distributed to three groups by the level of income. The consecutive application of the autoregressive distributed lag method, Yamamoto’s causality test, and variance decomposition analysis allowed the authors to find the food insecurity effects of COVID-19 to be more perceptible in upper-middle-income economies than in the least developed countries. In the latter, food security risks attributed to the emergence of the health crisis were mainly related to economic access to adequate food supply (food inflation), whereas in higher-income developing economies, availability-sided food security risks (food trade restrictions and currency depreciation) were more prevalent. The approach presented in this paper contributes to the establishment of a methodology framework that may equip decision-makers with up-to-date estimations of health crisis effects on economic parameters of food availability and access to staples in food-insecure communities.

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Trade and Economic Aspects of Food Security: Evidence from 45 Developing Countries

Erokhin

Tianming

2020

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“…The first concept refers to the existence of food that allows survival. The FAO [17] conceives food security as the physical and economic access that every person must have at all times to ensure their diets include safe and nutritious food, as well as the necessary food-supply preferences for living an active and healthy life, regardless of the origin of the food [54]. Meanwhile, food sovereignty is the right of a nation to maintain and develop its capacity to produce its own essential foods while respecting cultural and productive diversity.…”

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“…Considering the methodology section, it is necessary to remember that the goal of this search was to identify patterns and the use of tools, particularly from the perspective of system science, in problems related to food sustainability and urban agriculture. Although the literature review did not focus exclusively on urban agriculture, the algorithm for community detection and its subsequent review indicated that the works that deal with urban agriculture as their central theme with a precise geographical context did not identify particularities in the spaces, techniques, forms of management, and organizational structures for food production in urban areas [10,19,28,54,105,106].…”

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“…The KWs in this subgroup consider food regulations to be a critical issue for domestic agricultural production and the growth of food trade in any region. Additionally, a gap is inferred between the methodologies and practices used to achieve a food policy that regulates and monitors the four trends found in the group of security community nodes [69,83]: auto-sufficiency [61,84,85], sustainability [54,86,87], and sovereignty [88][89][90]. Schreer and Padmanabhan [14], Agarwal [91], and Li et al [32] highlighted the effective application of food policies to strengthen the relationship between the four aspects.…”

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Systemic Design for Food Self-Sufficiency in Urban Areas

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This article adopts a systemic approach to address the problem of the operationalization of relationships between actors conducive to food self-sufficiency in urban areas. Through the use of Social Network Analysis (SNA), the literature on urban agriculture was analyzed, detecting eight key trends and topic areas. This information was used to design a generic recursive organizational structure with the identification of the key roles and functions for management and governance in the multi-level and multi-stakeholder relationships of a sustainable urban self-sufficient food production system, inspired by the principles of complexity management and organizational cybernetics. Methodologically, this is the first application that combines the exploratory capability of SNA and the recursive structure of the Viable System Model (VSM) to propose applicable organizational structures in any urban area, suggesting a new route for the study and application of systemic thinking in the development of urban agriculture schemes. However, due to the conceptual nature of this work, this study opens a discussion on how we can rethink interactions to seek continuous adaptation in food self-sufficiency, provide tools that foster inclusion, and adapt to every context to support the relevant actors and academics in urban agriculture.

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“…Authors that study effects of the Russian import ban also point out that growing self-sufficiency in food and seafood is the result of the ban [24,25]. At the same time, since the establishing of the Russian Food Security Policy in 2010, average per capita food consumption improved, although the poor consume much less [26].…”

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Trade Sanctions and Agriculture Support in Milk and Dairy Industry: Case of Russia

Krivko

Smutka

2020

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Economic sanctions between the European Union and Russia have significantly changed trade relations between them, while there are controversial assessments of sanctions’ impact on both economies. Russian import ban has changed domestic producer prices in Russia, offering domestic producers a unique opportunity. There is an opinion that increasing self-sufficiency supports sustainable growth in agricultural production. At the same time, there is question of when and whether Russian import ban will be lifted? This paper offers an overview of changes in milk producer prices and support for milk producers in Russia in the period after the Russian import ban. We argue that currently the Russian Government has little incentive to lift import ban for milk and dairy products, as state support of agricultural producers has been decreased in significance for producers and was replaced by market prices support. Main findings suggest that all Russian federal regions experienced significant increases in transfers to producers from consumers; however, the pace of the increase appears to be different across regions. Paradoxically, the Western sanctions helped Russian milk and dairy industry to strengthen its position.

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Russia’s food self-sufficiency and food security: an assessment

Cited by 41 publications

References 18 publications

Impacts of COVID-19 on Trade and Economic Aspects of Food Security: Evidence from 45 Developing Countries

Impacts of COVID-19 on Trade and Economic Aspects of Food Security: Evidence from 45 Developing Countries

Systemic Design for Food Self-Sufficiency in Urban Areas

Trade Sanctions and Agriculture Support in Milk and Dairy Industry: Case of Russia

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