Food security in the conditions of digital economy: Tendencies and perspectives

Abstract

The purpose of the work is to study the current tendencies and future perspectives of provision of national food security in the conditions of digital economy by the example of modern Russia. For determining the influence of the process of digital economy development in modern Russia in the level of national food security, the authors use the methods of horizontal, trend, regression, and correlation analysis. The authors determine the annual growth rate of the values of food security index according to the data of the International Telecommunication Union and the digital economy index according to the data of the Economist Intelligence Unit and calculate six-year trend (growth rate for six years). The authors also determine growth rates of the values of food security index during increase of the digital economy index by 1 and calculate correlation coefficient (R2), which reflects connection between these indicators in dynamics for 2012–2017. The authors come to the conclusion that modern Russia is peculiar for aggravation of the problem of provision of national food security. The authors also determine insufficient usage of existing potential of digital economy for solving this problem, the large scale of which is shown by the presented authors’ mechanism of provision of national food security in the conditions of digital economy.