Lost opportunities for ensuring food security in Russia in conditions of increased sanction pressure

In recent years, the results achieved by the agro-industrial complex and especially agriculture, as the fundamental principles of ensuring food security, have turned out to be insufficient to carry out 1) По материалам доклада на общем собрании членов РАН Отделения cельскохозяйственных наук 22 мая 2023 г.import substitution in the necessary volumes for cattle breeding, sheep, fruit and even potato growing, to bring the population's consumption of certain types of food to rational norms, to accelerate to address issues of qualitative improvement of its nutrition. They still do not correspond to the huge agrarian potential, both in terms of its rational use and in terms of involving unused production resources for the additional production of competitive agricultural and food products to better meet domestic needs and increase exports. However, the agrarian sphere of the economy has reached a point where, oriented towards the implementation of the innovation and investment development model, it is able, with the active support of the state, not only to reliably ensure food security, but also to significantly increase the country's role as a major exporter of domestic food products and agricultural raw materials by the global agri-food market.