FOOD’S SECURITY PECULIARITIES OF THE UKRAINIAN REGIONS

The article considers the basic concepts of regions' food security. The main indicators and indicators are systematized, on the basis of which it is expedient to assess the state of food security of individual regions and Ukraine as a whole. The most general criteria of region's food security and the main factors that determine the degree of region's food security in modern conditions, which can be long-term and short-term in nature; absolute and relative indicators used to assess the level of regional food security. The analysis of the state region's food security, according to the established criteria, which can be carried out in these four areas by detailing and calculating indicators in the dynamics over many years, characterizing the current state and trends in this state. There are a number of positive and negative characteristics of region's food security, namely, positive: the formation of market infrastructure (system of wholesale food markets and marketing information); income growth; increase of self-sufficiency of the population in foodstuff owing to expansion of the sizes of farms of the population and country sites. And negative characteristics, in particular: reduction of purchasing power of the population; imperfect state regulation of foreign food trade; there are no conditions for the stable functioning of the food market; conditions have not been created for stable growth of production volumes of the main types of agricultural products. Two main areas of food security are described. Problems in the field of food security are revealed, which are closely related to the two main reasons that are emerging in the agricultural sector. The main conditions for ensuring region's food security are substantiated: economic affordability of food; rational combination of food of own production and imported within the single economic space of the country; inadmissibility of interregional barriers to trade.