AGRICULTURAL INPUTS AND FOOD SECURITY

GAVRILĂ VIORICA
INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS, NIER, ROMANIAN ACADEMY
Author email: vio.gavrila@yahoo.com
Abstract: Food secu­ri­ty is a broad inter­dis­ci­pli­nary process with mul­ti-sec­toral impli­ca­tions that go beyond the food pro­duc­tion, sup­ply and pro­cure­ment needs. Ensur­ing con­sump­tion avail­abil­i­ties has late­ly gained par­tic­u­lar impor­tance due to the evo­lu­tion of the prices of pro­duc­tion fac­tors. The analy­sis of annu­al indices for ener­gy, agri­cul­ture and food pro­cess­ing shows that ener­gy prices (coal, crude oil and nat­ur­al gas) have reg­is­tered spec­tac­u­lar increas­es. The com­mon  respons­es to prob­lems relat­ed to the scarci­ty of resources include high­er prices, while the com­mon respons­es to the man­age­ment of resources involve their more effi­cient use, intro­duc­ing alter­na­tives and recov­ery of resource after use, involve­ment of pub­lic fac­tors in sup­port­ing agri­cul­tur­al pro­duc­tion.
Key words: food secu­ri­ty, agri­cul­tur­al inputs
JEL Clas­si­fi­ca­tion: Q12, Q18