How the agroindustry will pull the country out of the coronavirus in Russia
Russia
Published Mar 6, 2021
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The United Nations regularly raises the issue of global food security in the light of the continued growth of the world's population. Alarming trends of underconsumption of food and a decline in standards of healthy, safe nutrition have already emerged and are developing among certain social groups in early 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has only exacerbated this problem - for many countries, the risk of facing a food crisis has become much more real. According to the UN, world food prices in January 2021 peaked in nearly seven years. As things stand with food in Russia - in the material "Izvestia".
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Even before the pandemic, international organizations recorded a deterioration in such basic indicators as the number of hungry and undernourished people from 784 million people in 2015 to 821 million people in 2018 and an increase in the share of these categories in the total population over the same period - from 10.6 to 10 ,8%. Among the main reasons for this dynamics are the slowdown in economic growth and economic recessions, the connection between the dependence on raw materials of a number of countries with food security and nutrition, and the imperfect agrarian policy. “Against this background, the situation in the Russian agro-industrial complex looks quite optimistic,” said Dmitry Orlov, Director General of the Agency for Political and Economic Communications. - Minister Dmitry Patrushev managed to bring it to a stable trajectory, and work in the agricultural sector is structured in such a way that, despite the crisis and pandemic, today the stable growth of agricultural ...
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