Mechanisms of Green Development of Urban Agricultural Production in a Large Industrial City

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (8) ◽  
pp. 823-829
Author(s):  
E. V. Malysh
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Short Supply ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Green Development

A city’s potential for food self-sufficiency is expected to increase through the distribution of innovative, high-tech, green agricultural practices of producing food in an urban environment, which can improve the city’s food security due to increased food accessibility in terms of quantity and quality. Aim. Based on the systematization of theoretical approaches and analysis of institutional aspects, the study aims to propose ways to strengthen the city’s food security by improving food supply in urban areas, increasing the socio-economic and environmental sustainability of urban food systems, and changing the diet of urban residents.Tasks. The authors propose methods for the development of urban agricultural production in a large industrial city based on the principles of green economy and outline the range of strategic urban activities aimed at implementing green agricultural production technologies associated with the formation and development of the culture of modern urban agricultural production.Methods. This study uses general scientific methods of cognition to examine the specificity of objectives of strengthening a city’s food security by improving the quality of food supply to the population. Methods of comparison, systems analysis, systematization of information, and the monographic method are also applied.Results. A strategic project for the development of urban agricultural systems through the implementation and green development of advanced urban agricultural technologies is described. Green development mechanisms will create conditions for the city’s self-sufficiency in terms of organic and safe products, functioning of short supply chains, and green urban agriculture.Conclusions. Managing the growth of urban agriculture will promote the use of highly effective, easily controlled, resource-efficient, eco-friendly, weather- and season-independent, multi-format urban agricultural technologies. The study describes actions aimed at creating conditions for stabilizing a city’s high-quality food self-sufficiency with allowance for the growing differentiation of citizen needs.

FOOD SECURITY IN RUSSIA IN THE CONTEXT OF CLIMATE CHANGE

2021 ◽  
pp. 45-65
Author(s):  
Maria Polozhikhina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Crimean Peninsula ◽  
Climate Conditions ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Crimean Peninsula

Climate conditions remain one of the main risk factors for domestic agriculture, and the consequences of global climate change are ambiguous in terms of prospects for agricultural production in Russia. This paper analyzes the impact of climate change on the country’s food security from the point of view of its self-sufficiency in grain primarily. Specific conditions prevailing on the Crimean peninsula are also considered.

scholarly journals DIGITALIZATION OF AGRICULTURE IN THE CONTEXT OF INCREASING COMPETITIVENESS OF NATIONAL AGROINDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

2019 ◽  
pp. 56-63
Author(s):  
Aigul Aldungarovna Aitpaeva
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
System Development ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Country Formation

The article focuses on the importance of digitization of agriculture for rising the competitiveness of the domestic agro-industrial complex (AIC). In order to obtain an objective picture of APC nowadays, there have been analyzed the supplies of the staples in the Russian Federation and revealed the problems with producing milk, beef, fruit and vegetables of sheltered ground. It is stated that today Russia is actively implementing import substitution strategies in the sectors of the national economy including the agricultural sector. The main purpose of functioning of the national AIC has been determined as ensuring the parameters of food security for the population of Russia. There are considered the burning issues on achieving food self-sufficiency, the solution of which lies in increasing the competitiveness of the national AIC. The emphasis is placed on the need to transfer agricultural production to the ecological and economic principles of management and the rational distribution of using all types of resources. It has been recommended to assess the soil-climatic and economic potential of the territory in order to identify the priorities of food self-sufficiency for basic types of food in all regions of the country. Formation of the organizational and economic mechanism for creating competitive advantages of AIC helps to develop agricultural production on the innovative basis and to ensure the long-lasting food security at the federal level. The factors increasing AIC competitiveness are: economic soil fertility, usable agricultural areas, optimization of the structure of sown areas, system development of fodder production and animal husbandry, digitization of agriculture, etc. There have been analyzed the problems of insufficient digital prevalence in agriculture; the role of digitalization in achieving the parameters of food security is substantiated. The study results can be used to improve the mechanism of ensuring food security for the population of Russia.

scholarly journals Financial Impact of Digital Technologies as a Promising Element of Import Substitution

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 392
Author(s):  
Elvira Ildarovna Bulatova ◽  
Elmira Faylovna Amirova
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Value Added ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
Agricultural Technologies ◽  
Digital Architecture ◽  
Complex Development

This article examines the financial elements of agricultural production digital architecture in Russia during the transition to the fourth technological stage in order to compete and import substitution in the agro-industrial market of the country. The pandemic and its consequences have had a negative impact on the Russian economy, in the context of the country's insufficient food security and the inevitable increase in prices for imported goods, due to rising prices for hydrocarbons and the predominance of low-value-added food products in exports. Due to the weakening of the ruble against the falling oil prices, the economy may face the need for a new wave of import substitution. This study identifies the problems of the agricultural sector and the reasons for Russia’s high dependence on imports justify the need to develop high-tech technologies. Authors determined the development directions of agricultural production digitalization in Russia through innovative agricultural technologies based on the Internet of things, distributed computing, and artificial intelligence technologies. Increasing the level of the agro-industrial complex development, bringing it to a new independent stage, is vital. However, it is impossible without state support and the digitalization of technological processes.

Integrated Aquaculture within Agriculture Irrigation for Food Security and Adaptation to Climate Change

2012 ◽  
pp. 73-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tek Bahadur Gurung
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Biodiversity Loss ◽  
Subsistence Farming ◽  
Adaptation To Climate Change ◽  
Integrated Aquaculture ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Agriculture Irrigation

In the existing complexities of climate change, biodiversity, subsistence farming and several other issues associated with agriculture production, gaining self sufficiency in food security is challenging. Experiences from many countries suggest that aquaculture integration within agricultural irrigation, where aquaculture is a non-consumptive user of water, has contributed to increase overall productivity. Irrigation purposively provides water for agriculture in other than rain fed conditions. Strategically, however, irrigation should lead to efficient water management for increased agricultural production especially in present context of biodiversity loss, poverty, water, food and nutritional insecurity in the era of climate change. To overcome the problems of food security and many other relevant issues, the integration of aquaculture within agriculture irrigation is highly recommended.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/hn.v11i1.7214 Hydro Nepal Special Issue: Conference Proceedings 2012 pp.73-77

scholarly journals Implementation of the doctrine of food security in Russia: assessment and prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 751-764
Author(s):  
Vera A. Tikhomirova
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Import Substitution ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Livestock Farming ◽  
Current State ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Systemic Problems ◽  
State Of Affairs

The increasing politicization of international food trade, as well as the stagnation of the world economy due to the coronavirus epidemic, once again confirmed the relevance of Russia's self-sufficiency in food. The implementation of the Food Security Doctrine has made it possible to overcome the systemic problems of domestic agriculture and increase the sustainable production of basic crop products and aquatic biological resources. However, the situation in livestock farming is not so optimistic: stagnation in resource-intensive cattle production and dairy farming is accompanied by success in import substitution of poultry and pork meat. The revision of the doctrine in January 2020 shifted the focus from self-reliance on agricultural commodities to the production of a wide range of competitive high value-added foods. The article analyzes the dynamics of self-sufficiency in food in Russia, examines the current state of affairs in the main sectors of domestic agricultural production and the fishery complex, and offers promising areas of development.

scholarly journals Applications of Nanotechnology in Plant Growth and Crop Protection: A Review

Molecules ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (14) ◽  
pp. 2558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yifen Shang ◽  
Md. Kamrul Hasan ◽  
Golam Jalal Ahammed ◽  
Mengqi Li ◽  
Hanqin Yin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Food Security ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Crop Production ◽  
Crop Protection ◽  
Controlled Delivery ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Agricultural Systems ◽  
And Control

In the era of climate change, global agricultural systems are facing numerous, unprecedented challenges. In order to achieve food security, advanced nano-engineering is a handy tool for boosting crop production and assuring sustainability. Nanotechnology helps to improve agricultural production by increasing the efficiency of inputs and minimizing relevant losses. Nanomaterials offer a wider specific surface area to fertilizers and pesticides. In addition, nanomaterials as unique carriers of agrochemicals facilitate the site-targeted controlled delivery of nutrients with increased crop protection. Due to their direct and intended applications in the precise management and control of inputs (fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides), nanotools, such as nanobiosensors, support the development of high-tech agricultural farms. The integration of biology and nanotechnology into nonosensors has greatly increased their potential to sense and identify the environmental conditions or impairments. In this review, we summarize recent attempts at innovative uses of nanotechnologies in agriculture that may help to meet the rising demand for food and environmental sustainability.

scholarly journals Food for Thought: Addressing Urban Food Security Risks through Urban Agriculture

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 1267
Author(s):  
Jorinda Steenkamp ◽  
Elizelle Juanee Cilliers ◽  
Sarel Stephanus Cilliers ◽  
Louis Lategan
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Climate Change Impacts ◽  
Potential Method ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
Urban Food Security ◽  
Food Supply Chains

Food and nutrition security has been neglected in the planning field for reasons of a lack of connection between food and planning and the perception that agricultural activities have no place in the modernizing world. However, considering increasing climate change impacts and implications on industrialized agriculture, there is a clear need to establish shorter, more sustainable agricultural production practices and food supply chains. Urban agriculture is proposed as a potential method of intervention for planners to support sustainable food production and supply chains. The paper utilized a multiple-case study design to analyze four best practice examples of urban agriculture in the Global South to uncover its potential to address food security associated risks and contribute to sustainable development objectives. The results delivered evidence of the potential to harness the multifunctionality of urban agriculture to not only improve the food security of the most at-risk populations, but to also address other urban risks such as unemployment, community decline and food deserts. The recommendations for this paper relate to establishing a food security department, mapping and encouraging more sustainable food supply chains, creating land uses and zonings specific to urban agriculture and to utilize its multifunctionality to address other urban risks.

scholarly journals Foreign experience in improving food security as one of the most im-portant foundations for ensuring the national security of the state (on the example of Japan)

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
P. Kobetc
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Food Prices ◽  
The State ◽  
Industrial Complex ◽  
The Past ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the problem of chronic hunger, which has worsened over the past decades in the world, clearly indicates that there is not enough food in the world to feed people. The problem under consideration continues to worsen due to such factors as: the effects of climate change, the unstable world economy, low agricultural production, growing poverty and unstable food prices. Thus, these factors have set new challenges for the world to produce and continuously supply the population with basic foodstuffs. In modern Japan, the problems related to ensuring food security on the basis of a strong interaction between the agro-industrial complex and the state are very active. At the same time, the problem of food security in the land of the rising sun differs from the world one. Since Japanese food security consists in increasing the self-sufficiency coefficient by increasing domestic production in order to meet the demand for both types of food related to traditional Japanese food and imported from abroad. Thus, in addition to understanding the problem of food security in Japan, this paper also focuses on the need to increase self-sufficiency in food.

scholarly journals Food security problems for developing countries in the conditions of COVID-19: case of Georgia

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-17
Author(s):  
Nato Jabnidze ◽  
Leila Tsetskhladze ◽  
Ia Meskhidze
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Food Products ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Local Production ◽  
Food Sector ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Self Sufficiency

Introduction. Food security has not been a concern of any particular state and is a global problem for already a long time. It, as an economic category in the scientific literature, is considered from the position of ensuring the security of the global world problem, regions, individual countries, population groups and individual people. It is a multifaceted issue, closely linked to other security issues, and has a great impact on the national safety situation, which in turn is an economic, social and political category. COVID-19 has created a large-scale economic crisis. The pandemic has had a major impact on food security and the field of nutrition. The crisis has affected food systems and threatened public access to food, raising the issue of food self-sufficiency in countries.Aim and tasks. In order to assess food security, the paper examines the self-sufficiency coefficients of basic agro-food products in Georgia under the conditions of the World Pandemic, and evaluates its components: local production, import, export. In addition, local production trends have been analyzed, Results. Thus a study of the current state of the agro-food sector shows that the problem of providing the population with food is becoming more acute. The pace of development of the agro-food sector lags significantly behind the growth rates of other sectors of the economy. The current economic growth has not yet created the conditions for sustainable economic development: The level of supply of essential agro-food products is quite low, the number of jobs has not increased substantially, the level of income is low, poverty rates are still high and the food deficit is filled mainly with imported products.Conclusions. This study showed that the issue of the food security is still unresolved for Georgia. Despite the state support activities, the agro-food sector still needs assistance. We have developed recommendations, the consideration of which will significantly contribute to food supply of the markets and food supply to the population. Keywords: agro-food products, local production, food independence, self-sufficiency coefficients.

scholarly journals On the role of rural areas in the processes of ensuring food security of the state

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 6-10
Author(s):  
Aleksandr Semin
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Threshold Values ◽  
Social Infrastructure ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
State Programs

The article examines the problems of food supply for the population of the Russian Federation, taking into account the role of rural areas in these processes, in which the central link of the food security system is concentrated - agriculture. The program-target approaches are noted both in the development of agricultural production and in rural areas with its multifunctionality. The factors that hinder the achievement of all threshold values ​​of ensuring food security of the Russian Federation are considered. It has been established that the processes of development of rural areas, and, first of all, in terms of creating an effective social infrastructure, increasing the attractiveness of rural areas, are proceeding much slower than planned. A transition from federal and state programs related to the development of rural areas to the national project "Rural Areas - the Most Important Component of the Spatial Development of the Russian Federation" is recommended.

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