Expert on key risks hampering settlement of global food security challenges

The UN has set a goal to end hunger and global food insecurity by 2030. In 2015, the UN adopted the 2030 agenda, aimed at the sustainable development of the entire global economic system and solving the problem of food security on the planet. Many directions have been proposed to achieve these goals, but today the problem of food security in the world has not been settled yet – as noted by Prof. Natalya Kireenko, Doctor of Economics, Department Head at the Institute for Professional Development and Retraining of Agribusiness Specialists of the Belarusian State Agrarian Technical University.

“Growing poverty and inequality, as well as a serious gap between layers of society, lack of access to finance for many categories of citizens, shortage of essential goods are the realities of the modern world. Moreover, other key problems of 2024 are also obvious and include macroeconomic risks, such as general global inflation and, of course, international food prices, which have slightly dropped after 2022, but still remain high. These are the costs of energy resources, logistics and increased food production due to the growing human population. It is also important not to forget about urbanisation, which began half a century ago, but right now there is a large-scale relocation of the population from rural areas to cities. The decrease in the number of workers in rural areas affects production volumes of food products,” the expert explained.