METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO ASSESSMENT OF FOOD SOVEREIGNTY OF THE REGION

The paper considered the conditions for maintenance of food security level, the main tasks of regional food market regulation, the concepts of “food security” and “food sovereignty”, and the existing methods for determination of the level of food security and food sovereignty; the authors systematized the criteria of food sovereignty and developed the methodology for the determination of food sovereignty level taking into account the identified special factors. To test the methods on the basis of official statistical data of the local agency of Federal State Statistics Service in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the authors carried out the assessment of food sovereignty level of the Nizhny Novgorod region in the food (commodity) potatoes for 2004–2014. According to the results, the authors made the adequate conclusions.