ANALYSIS OF THE EXPERIENCE OF WTO MEMBER COUNTRIES FOR ENSURING FOOD SECURITY AND APPLYING THIS EXPERIENCE IN UKRAINE

Abstract

Abstract. This paper analyzes the WTO member states experience of ensuring food security
for their countries and identifies the opportunities of using this experience for economic policy
of Ukraine.
Much attention is given to ways and means of improving the quality of life for citizens of the
USA and the EU. The article explores the commonalities and differences in approaches to addressing
these issues in the developed countries.
The article demonstrates priorities for the developed countries governments and identifies
their strategic plan for ensuring implementation of national food security programs. Developing
food policy experts the U. S. and EU countries are using new approaches to the determination
of its specific goals and means. The EU is implementing the idea of creating a single
European system, which would include support of markets for ensuring food security, protection
from cheap imports in order to maintain national food producers and exports support. The paper
establishes basic markets regulation mechanisms in the common agricultural policy: target
prices, intervention prices, ceiling prices, variable import tariffs and export subsidies. Also, the
paper formulates three fundamental principles of the common agricultural policy of the European
Economic Community: market unity, general funding and preferences to the Community.
Experience of state regulation of food complex in the European countries demonstrates essentially
new scheme of interaction between state and business actors. This approach involves
the direct solution of economic problems through the creation of effective and transparent regulatory
instruments.
The article generalizes characteristic of the state regulation modes of the agricultural sector
in the WTO developed member states. The article identifies the main state regulation measures
of the agricultural sector of the economies of the USA, Canada and the European Economic
Community.
The article analyzes the experience of the development of the agricultural sector of Ukrainian
economy and determines the directions for its development. Ukraine's accession to the WTO,

the integration of the domestic agricultural market into the global food market involves the
transformation of support system and regulation of the agricultural sector development. The
article demonstrates priority areas for the state support to the agricultural sector. It is important
for Ukraine to rethink the current threats to state food security in modern realities of global
world processes and in the context of the European integration. Ensuring national food security
should be based on a systemic approach to solving its problems, the same way as is the case
in developed economies.
Key words: food security, agriculture, the WTO, the U.S., the EU and Ukraine, agriculture
and food products.