FOOD SECURITY IN A PANDEMIC: RISKS AND MITIGATIONMEASURES
The article considers the problems of food security in Russia in a pandemic, assesses the risks of physical shortage of food products and suggests measures to reduce them. Generalized indicators of assessing food security are presented, the economic affordability of food for groups of people with different income levels, the risk of malnutrition and hunger due to lower population incomes and the lack of an established food assistance system, the risks of a halt in production in certain sectors of the agricultural sector due to a pandemic and the threat of bankruptcy are analyzed agribusiness and measures to support it.