Economic and Social Development, pp.61-66, 2021 (Conference Book)
Food security is a complex and multifaceted problem that is both international and national in nature and affects every single person, every social group and the population of the state as a whole. For Azerbaijan, this task remains one of the central in political, economic and social life, along with the tasks in the field of defense, general economic and national security. Since the 1970s, food security has been viewed by the world community as an integral part of sustainable development. The UN system and its specialized agencies, along with other international institutions and the nongovernmental sector, have begun the process of developing global strategies and policies on food security. For Azerbaijan, food security is one of the central in the system of economic security, where one of the main indicators is economic accessibility and the ability of the population to purchase food in accordance with physiological norms with the existing consumption structure, price system, income level, benefits and benefits, since without reliable supplying the population with food, the state is unable to ensure the protection of the vital interests of society and the individual.