POLICY AND PRACTICE OF PROVISION FOOD SECURITY OF COUNTRY PARTICIPANTS OF THE UNION OF BRICS
The article studies the theoretical and practical foundations for ensuring food security of the BRICS countries. The components and principles of the formation of food security are singled out. Conceptual approaches to the state regulation of food security in the BRICS countries have been studied. It is proved that food security is a constituent element of national security, international security, which is especially important in the context of intensifying the processes of globalization. It was revealed that the main difficulty in resolving this issue is related to the insufficiency of food and limited natural resources, the increase in food prices in world markets, with the rapid growth of the world population. The problems of economic and technological development that have recently been relevant only to individual states have been singled out, but now they are getting a global dimension, they require coordinated actions of the world community, in particular, integration groups such as BRICS. One of such important issues is the provision of food and agricultural raw materials. An assessment of the state of food security in the BRICS countries was made using a number of criteria and indexes of food security. The national features of the food security of each BRICS country are considered and the problems of its provision are identified. It is proved that the creation of the foundations of food security is a systemic task, the solution of which begins at the world level and must reach every single country and person. The BRICS countries along with other countries of the world can be a stabilizer of the world food market and a source of support for food security of countries with unfavorable climatic conditions for agricultural production. Scenarios for further development of the global agro-food system are proposed.