Food Welfare of Regional Residents in the Context of Food Security

The most important component of the socio-economic development of each region is food security, which is one of the main directions for ensuring state security in the long term, a factor in maintaining national sovereignty. This article explores the main economic determinants of the food well-being of the population of the Vologda Oblast in the context of ensuring the food security of the region. The features of the structure of consumer expenditures of households in the Vologda Oblast are analyzed; studied the level and dynamics of consumption of food products by the inhabitants of the region; analyzed the income and territorial differentiation in the food market. As a result of the study, threats to ensure the food security of the region were identified: an unfavorable structure of consumer spending of the population of the region, a consistently high proportion of the population with incomes below the subsistence level, excessively high income differentiation, which causes noticeable differences in food consumption, deterioration in the quality of consumption of food products. It is concluded that it is necessary to overcome them by increasing the effectiveness of social policy aimed at expanding the purchasing power of income, improving the level and quality of life of the population.