Authors:
A. N. MITIN, doctor of economic sciences, professor, head of the department,
URAL STATE LAW UNIVERSITY (21 Komsomolskaya Str., 620137, Ekaterinburg)
B. A. VORONIN, doctor of law, professor, head of the department
URAL STATE AGRARIAN UNIVERSITY (42 K. Liebknechta, 620075, Ekaterinburg)
Abstract. This article offers a scientific view on food economics which is considered as system of the organizations, structures, the logistic streams providing production and realization of food. Production of food in the modern world is carried out not only in the agrarian sphere of economy, but also in scientific laboratories which offer their developments to diversify types of food and also to provide increase in production of volumes of food. In the agrarian sphere of economy there are special conditions of receiving products for food of the people, and the prices of food depend on a significant amount of ingredients and sets of other aspects influencing consumer demand of the population. Details of pricing are extremely important for researchers and producers of food. Each country is interested in ensuring necessary level of food security which is reached in many ways. Lagging threatens with economic expansion of developed countries at which point food not only becomes strategic goods, but also limits social and economic development. For the past decades a certain progress has been made in the food economics, but different conflicts do not weaken: economic – the market competition for the right of receiving resources; between risk and benefit; conflicts of the public and municipal administration; conflicts of public opinion; the conflict between biotechnology, GM-technologies and organic technology. Production of food and consumption of food, besides positive properties, have also negative tendencies such as growth of food waste and destruction of foodstuff. Here introduction of models of consumption efficiency extension is important. The food economics as a system has the characteristics, indicators and incentives that allow to make timely administrative decisions on the choice of “road map” of the movement to its best efficiency in the conditions of a set of the markets. The economy and quality of foodstuff are inseparable. There are a lot of arguments, and therefore specific proposals on the called subject of a research can form the basis for further scientific discussions.
Keywords: economy, food, market of food, food security, efficiency, quality of foodstuff.
