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AVAILABILITY OF FOOD PRODUCTS IN UKRAINE IN THE CONTEXT OF FOOD SECURITY
Nataliia Skopenko, Anastasiia Sakhnenko

ABSTRACT. The problem of achieving food security has particularly important sense nowadays. At the moment, there is a rather low standard of living and social protection of large segments of the population, a significant decline in the nation's health, crisis demographic processes. These factors determine the need of measures to ensure food security in Ukraine and the improvement of state policy. The main principles of food security are self-sufficiency with the main food products, availability, accessibility, balance, quality and ecology of food products. However, it should be noted that all these principles are interdependent and need balancing with each other for the sustainable food security status. For Ukraine, the main threats of food security is the unbalance food consumption of the public, low consumption products with animal origin, a high proportion of household expenditure on food in the structure of total costs, highly differentiated food expenditures for social groups, raw nature of exports of agricultural products, higher prices for agricultural products on the internal market, lack of control over the food security .

KEYWORDS: food security, agriculture, balance, principles of food security, accessibility.

JEL classification: H560, Q100.