Providing sustainability of agri-food chains in Ukraine: priority oriented ways

Abstract

Providing sustainability of the agri-food sector has a key importance for Ukraine, as it helps to ensure: stable image of the country as producer and exporter of safe and high quality products; guarantee of the State food security and providing foodstuffs for the population according to scientifically justified norms; enlargement of employment and increasing of incomes for rural population. In the same time the creation of value in agri-food chain is based on joining and synergy of several compounds: reasonable agricultural productivity, guarantee of quality and safety of produced foodstuffs, providing territorial and economic accessibility to foodstuffs for consumers, enlargement of food markets’ geography.