International Cooperation in Providing Food Security

Human civilization is not viable if it does not provide the population of the world with food. Up to now,humanity has still not succeeded in making food available on a constant basis to all inhabitants of the planet: around 800 million people do not have enough to eat, millions are suffering from chronic hunger. For more than half a century efforts to develop measures to provide people with food have been undertaken at global, regional and national levels. In the 21st century almost all countries, international organizations, non-government and financial entities, the expert community and representatives of business are working to some degree to try and solve the global problem of food security. The efforts aimed at solving this problem increase each year in scope and magnitude, becoming more unified and better coordinated. Today a comprehensive multilevel approach is the most important feature of the international cooperation to improve on the current situation. Institutional entities are more and more actively involved in international cooperation regarding this issue. In 2015, the world community is assessing the achievements of 2000 Millennium Development Goals and of the 1996 World Food Summit, but it is also developing a new program of a conceptually new development which prioritises the problem of providing the population of the world with food. Hence, we have reached a chronologically meaningful phase of international cooperation to ensure global food security. On the basis of documents and materials of international organizations, analytical papers of Russian and international scholars, this paper reaches the conclusion that we are still a long way away from achieving food security and that only dynamic international cooperation, not only in the agricultural area but also in solving economic, trade, political and investment problems could make it possible. The purpose of this study is to analyse the contemporary international system of the international multilevel cooperation that is focused on solving the global food security problem. The article aims to define food security criteria and indicators, identify the vectors of international cooperation, the resource potential and their links to other problems of international development.

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