Klimova N.V. 1
1 Academy of marketing and socially-information technology – IMSIT
Defi nes the role of food security in the region to ensure its sustainable socio-economic development, an emphasis on their dual relationship, given the author’s generalization of the definitions of «food and economic security», non-identity grounded concepts of «food security» and «food dependency», a definition of a regional economic security and its constituent elements. Indicated the need for a special study of safety indicators for the regions and the requirements placed on it. Attention is paid to the factors shaping the region’s food security. In order to reduce import dependence proposed measures, including financial support from the state, a more flexible and differentiated system of customs duties, the formation of the intervention fund to improve the system of pricing. Identified risks of economic and food security in the region and the sources of their origin. Recommended the development of the concept of economic security in the region, with a description of its main sections (description of the problem situation, determining the target setting, development of methodological tools to build a system of economic security in the region, development of measures to implement the main provisions of the safety concept, evaluation of the concept of economic security).