STRATEGY AND TACTICS OF STATE POLICY IN THE SPHERE OF ENSURING FOOD SECURITY OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article is devoted to determining the steps to improve the strategy and tactics of state policy in the field of food security of Ukraine. The methodological basis of the research is comparative, system-structural and formal-logical methods. Their use made it possible to clarify the general mechanism of implementation of state policy, as well as to study the experience of strategic planning of the implementation of state policy in the field of ensuring food security in the leading member countries of the European Union. When conducting the research, domestic and foreign legal literature was used, which is devoted to the tools of public administration and the peculiarities of the implementation of state policy in the field of ensuring food security in individual EU member states, as well as in Ukraine. As a result of the research carried out by the author, it was established that in Ukraine there is no mechanism for the continuity of planning the strategy and tactics of the state policy in the field of ensuring food security of Ukraine. As a result, currently, state policy in this area of public administration is carried out without a clearly defined system of strategic goals and objectives. The scientific position that the mechanism of formation and implementation of state policy in the field of ensuring food security should be determined at the level of a separate law on food security of Ukraine is substantiated. The latter should include a detailed procedure for the development, approval and implementation of the national strategy and state policy tactics in the field of food security of Ukraine. In general, positively evaluating the draft order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine "On the approval of the food security strategy for the period until 2030", we propose to supplement its substantive part with the following elements: a mechanism for the implementation in Ukraine of the generally recognized EU-level principles of ensuring the country's food security; a mechanism for involving Ukraine in ensuring global food security, as well as a mechanism for implementing regional food security, in the context of cooperation between local self-government bodies and state authorities in this area. Particular attention should be paid to the involvement of IT in ensuring food security of Ukraine, as well as the formation of a mechanism of real cooperation between the state and civil society institutions in the field of ensuring food security of Ukraine.