STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE FOOD SUPPLY SYSTEM

Abstract

The escalation of geopolitical instability is causing a sharp increase in attention to issues of resource provision of the state and its regions. In particular, regional food supply is pivotal in shaping food security, as it is at the regional level where the foundational elements for a successful food supply system are established. In practice, regional food supply is usually viewed as a systemic process, which was used in this study as a basic scientific approach. Drawing from the findings of summarizing information from various publications, the author determined that the regional food supply system is most often and reasonably presented in the literature as a set of four subsystems, each with its own developed structure. The completed decomposition of the goals and functions of these food supply subsystems as a systemic process made it possible to more deeply understand the process under study and determine a set of assessment indicators for the functioning of the food security system in the regions of Russia. As an example, the provisions of multiple areas within the Russian Federation were assessed using 24 indicators taken from the Russian Statistical Yearbook, the correlation between which was analyzed using the Spearman criterion. Building upon the regression analysis findings, it was deter-mined that a rise in per capita income does not always lead to an increase in food consumption. This is a result of alterations in consumption patterns and economic factors, including inflation and changes in food prices. Therefore, the obtained results can be used as a foundation for developing and implementing economic policies focused on the sustainable development of the food sector, as well as for refining the commonly accepted system of indicators.

Keywords: food supply, food supply indicators, food security, food supply system

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About the Author

Xinyi Qian – Graduate Student, Voronezh State University of Engineering Technologies, Voronezh, Russia
E-mail: wzymcbymb2022@gmail.com. SPIN РИНЦ 5764-2546. ORCID 0009-0004-3227-2534

For citation: Qian X. Structural and Functional Analysis of the Food Supply System // Beneficium. 2024. Vol. 3(52). Pp. 85-95. (In Russ.). DOI: 10.34680/BENEFICIUM.2024.3(52).85-95