ДОСЛІДЖЕННЯ СТАНУ ГЛОБАЛЬНОЇ ПРОДОВОЛЬЧОЇ БЕЗПЕКИ

The article is devoted to the study of the state of the global food problem. Today, one of the most important and urgent global problems of humanity is food security, as the population of the world is growing rapidly, there is a threat that the existing natural resources are not enough to produce the amount of food that is necessary for the consumption of the population. Uneven development and irrational use of resources aggravate the food problem. In these conditions, it is urgent to strengthen the cooperation of countries to solve the global food problem. The threat of global food security makes the issue of increasing agricultural productivity more urgent than ever in countries that are currently the largest producers of agricultural products, including Ukraine. Despite the considerable amount of theoretical and analytical information on food security programs, insufficient attention has been paid to the causes and preconditions of the problem of hunger. In particular, the article presents the key concepts of global food security and examines the causes that aggravate the food crisis. The absence and lack of food security of the population is analyzed, changes in the prevalence of malnutrition that have occurred in recent years are considered, and the general scale of food security in the world is shown. The ranking of countries using the global food security index is also determined. As a result of the analysis of the reasons for the development of the global food problem, it was established that the food problem has reached global proportions today. There is an imbalance in food between countries of different levels of development. In countries with a low level of development and those that are developing, a situation of high depletion of food is observed. Many factors influenced this. Economic, environmental and climate crises have significantly increased the risk of worsening food security in the world and the likelihood of famine in certain regions. Russia's war against Ukraine, which is destroying its supply chain infrastructure and exacerbating food security problems, has contributed to increased attention to the issues under study. The research is aimed at determining the assessment of food security in the world and in Ukraine.