Ways of increasing innovative activity in the Agrarian sphere as a basis of food security

Abstract

The purpose of the article is the substantiation of the approach to provision of the national food security, which supposes considering its basis as innovational activity in the agrarian sphere by the example of modern Russia. In order to study the connection between innovative activity in the agrarian sphere and the national food security of Russia, the work uses the method of regression and correlation analysis, with the help of which, the dependence of the Global Food Security Index on the offered indicator of innovative activity in the agrarian sphere is found. During determination of the key factors of innovative activity in the agrarian sphere, the authors use the method of factor analysis, for which the proprietary economic and mathematical model is used. The authors determine the presence, character, and strength of connection of the national food security and innovational activity in the agrarian sphere, determine its key factors, and develop a complex of measures for management of economic security of agro-industrial complex in the interests of provision of the national food security of Russia.