The ever-increasing interest in organic farming products on the part of consumers stimulates organic producers to expand their product range and search for new markets and distribution channels. Especially demanded organic products in European countries and the United States. Increased requirements for the production of organic matter presupposes the presence of certain conditions in terms of certification of lands, technologies and quality characteristics of organic products. This, in turn, requires a regulatory and legal framework at the state level, a certification system, including the rules and procedure for certification of land and products, organizations with the right to conduct accreditation procedures, pricing and possible preferences for small businesses and the private sector of the population. This will optimize the requirements for the phased passage of the certification procedure and serve as a stimulating element for attracting new producers of organic products. An equally important strategic problem is the organization of effective marketing channels for organic products. The relevance of food security and the availability of food are topical issues in Russia. In the agro-industrial multifaceted, issues related to low profitability of production, preservation of the genetic material of farm animals, and others have not been resolved. The main measures to increase the economic accessibility of food can be implemented through regional programs for sustainable development of country area One of the urgent problems of the world community is the development of organic farming and the formation of markets for organic products. At the same time, commodity differentiation of organic products and geographic segmentation are the main factors influencing the development of organic farming. The producers of organic products in Russia, as a rule, are small businesses. Development of organic farming is of particular importance for cross-border agro-oriented regions, since it contributes to the development of export activities and commodity diversification. For the Altai Territory, the development of organic farming makes it possible to effectively develop new areas of gastronomic and rural tourism.
Primary incomes received by the population are an important incentive to improve labor productivity, its quality, and also serve as the main source of meeting the vital needs of the population. They determine the purchasing power of the population and its standard of living. This study is devoted to the study of the real standard of living of the population of the Altai Territory. During it, the composition of the consumer basket of Russians for 2022 was determined, compared with the norms established by the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation and the level of food consumption in the USSR. The characteristic of the subsistence minimum for the population of the regions of the Siberian Federal District is given in comparison with the average value for the Russian Federation. The composition and dynamics of the resources of households in the Altai Territory as a whole and by categories of rural and urban population were also studied. Particular attention was paid to the study of the composition and dynamics of the expenses of the citizens of the region as a whole, as well as in the context of the urban and rural population. In the course of detailing the expenditure part of the budget of the inhabitants of the region, the food basket, the cost of purchasing non-food products and paying for services were analyzed. On the basis of the conducted research, it became possible to conclude that a very low standard of living has developed in the region, a significant part of the population drags out a beggarly existence.
The agro-industrial complex (AIC) is a strategic backbone industry at the regional level. Issues of food security and functional availability of food are still of particular relevance. At the same time, the issues of self-sufficient development of regions, including in the branches of the agro-industrial complex, are of strategic importance. Acceptable levels of ensuring food independence and physical availability of food with agricultural products are noted in the directions of the Doctrine of Food Security of the Russian Federation. Nevertheless, a number of unresolved problems remain in terms of the level of affordability and rational norms of food consumption: there may be an abundance of products, but at a very expensive price. Given the limited purchasing power of the population, burdened by the pandemic, it is important for consumers to be able to purchase quality products in sufficient volume to ensure an active and healthy lifestyle. In the sectoral context, there are still unresolved issues of low profitability of production, preservation of the gene pool of farm animals, reduction in the number of cattle, insufficient level of technical and technological equipment, low level of average monthly wages in agriculture. The guarantee of the economic availability of food is possible with the stabilization of the general economic situation in the country and, accordingly, the growth of real incomes of the population, which, in turn, will give positive dynamics to new points of growth in the agro-industrial complex. The main measures to increase the economic affordability of food can be implemented through regional programs to support the poorer groups of the population, for example, the provision of subsidies for catering.
In the early 1990s, when state and collective farms were undergoing a reorganization procedure, the most heated debate was about which organizational and legal forms are most suitable for agricultural organizations in a market economy. The article examines the dynamics of the development of such structures in the context of organizational and legal forms. In the course of the study, using materials from the Altai Territory, an assessment was made of the presence of animals belonging to various agricultural producers, the dynamics of their products and the level of production efficiency. An assessment of the economic efficiency of the activities of agricultural organizations in the Rodinsky and Romanovsky districts of the region is given. As a result of a comparative analysis, it was revealed that the most effective organizational and legal form is production in subsidiary plots of the population (citizens).
A promising direction for solving the problems of improving life in rural areas is the implementation of the Local Initiatives Support Project, which is the most common and popular practice of initiative budgeting on the whole territory of Russian Federation. The theoretical basis of participatory budgeting is the republican theory of the organization of society and participatory democracy, which assumes a decentralized collective decision-making that affects the life of the community. The article considers the history of the development of participatory budgeting in the world, the Russian Federation and the Altai Region in particular, describes the applied procedure of initiative budgeting, and analyzes the implementation of the Local Initiatives Support Project on the example of the Kosikhinsky district, Altai Region. The performed researches indicate the expansion of the practice of realization the LISP in the Altai Territory. But already at this stage the authors note the need to improve relations between the project participants and suggest using the experience of implementing the adapted methodology developed by the European University in St. Petersburg and the Committee of Civil Initiatives in the cities of Cherepovets (Vologda region) and Sosnovy Bor (Leningrad region) for this purpose.
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