Due to its specifics agriculture is very inert and cannot promptly respond to the changing environment. As a result the signs of crisis appear therein later and the after-crisis recovery goes slower than in other sectors of the economy

In the beginning of 2010 the RF President approved the Doctrine of Food Security worked out in the framework of the Strategy of National Security of the Russian Federation till 2020 (enacted by the RF President Decree No. 537 of May 12, 2009). For the first time the Doctrine treats food security...

20 years have passed since the start of reforms in Russian agriculture. It’s a term allowing to draw some conclusions. Despite all the inconsistency, contradictoriness and non-integrity of government efforts, remarkable changes have taken place in the sector. This review is not supposed to...

Russian Abstract: Одной из приоритетных целей социально-экономической политики России является развитие ее агропромышленного комплекса. В начале 2010 г. российский...

Russian Abstract: В работе приведена краткая характеристика сельского хозяйства России, Беларуси, Казахстана и Армении, показана роль стран во взаимной торговле,...

This paper examines the relative roles of region-specific and commodity-specific developments in the consumer price setting in Russia. For this purpose, we estimate a dynamic hierarchical factor model using inflation rates across regions and sectors. We found little evidence of association...

In Russia where the major volumes of vegetables are traditionally produced by household farms, the fruit and vegetable business started developing quite recently. 2009-2010 were favourable for farm producers: market prices for vegetables were relatively high, investing in the construction of...

The lowering of import duties on pork from August 2012 following Russia's accession to the WTO resulted in the decrease of prices for this product and the decline of profitability of domestic pig production. Combined with a whole set of other factors this dragged the problems of the sector forth...

One of the major targets of modern agri-food policy in Russia is a significant increase of agri-food exports - almost twice as much by 2024. In this projection, China is viewed as the most promising market. However, Russia's entrance to the Chinese market faces a number of constraints. In...