ECONOMIC FACTORS IN FOOD AVAILABILITY AND THEIR ASSESSMENT IN A DIGITAL ECONOMY
Economic access to food is an integral component of food security, both in the region and in the country as a whole. In modern conditions, the issues of assessing the economic availability of food are quite relevant. In the economic scientific literature in recent years began to discuss the evaluation of this category. But to date, no single methodology has been developed that would allow a comprehensive assessment of the level of economic accessibility, both of a particular region and the country as a whole. The article considers the factors influencing the economic availability of food. The analysis of classifications of factors of economic availability of food, presented in the economic literature, on the basis of which the author’s classification of these factors. The article presents the author’s definition of direct and inverse factors of economic accessibility and provides an explanation of their practical use. The systematization of factors is given. Analyzed and systematized the nature of the impact of factors of economic access to food at its level. The possibility of using each factor to assess the level of economic accessibility in the digital economy, taking into account the availability of official statistics. The article presents an algorithm for assessing the economic availability of food at the regional level.