GLOBAL TRANSFORMATION TRENDS OF ENSURING FOOD SECURITY OF STATES AGAINST GLOBAL THREATS
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Abstract
The purpose of the paper is to investigate global transformation trends of ensuring food security of states against global threats. Our focus is to confirm that global threats influence the process of agri-food transformation and the selection of policy responses. Methodology. The research is based on comparison, logical synthesis methods, as well as economic analysis through cross-tab analysis, cluster analysis and PLS-SEM modelling of selected questionnaire results of 195 food security experts from 52 countries. The datasets used for PLS-SEM model are Likert scale type, other questions are multi-choice questions. Results of the survey showed that global threats significantly shape the configuration of policy responses and transformation pathways, but the strength of influence depend on the nature and depth of the threat. Practical implications. Global threats – particularly geopolitical and environmental – are the primary drivers shaping food security as a multidimensional problem, influencing diverse expert perceptions, steering transformation pathways toward integrated sustainability, technology, governance and hybrid models. and, as evidenced by both cross-analysis and PLS-SEM results, framing policy priorities for food-security investment instruments. Value / originality. The novelty of the research is that the questionnaire was constructed in way to validate selected theoretical food security frameworks and transformation trends to obtain theoretically-sound results that can be used to improve global and international policy responses on food security.
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global transformation trends, food security, global threats, transformation, agri-food systems, policy responses, questionnaire analysis, Russia’s war against Ukraine, climate change, natural disasters, 4 Betters, cluster analysis, crosstab analysis, PLS-SEM, resilience, sustainability, technologies, governance
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