Historical Aspects of the Food Crises: Causes and Solutions

Abstract

The thesis considers the food crisis in Russia considering historical, socio-economic and political circumstances. The study aims at determining food crises causes and identifying its compensation ways. Therefore, a man solved the following tasks consistently: studying the food crises content throughout all stages of the Russian agrarian development; determining the main food crisis causes at each stage; identifying the main ways to solve the food crisis. The study objects are articles, reports, notes with messages about the food crisis and the fight against hunger, statistical and economic information about agriculture in Russia. The researchers considered historical experience of food difficulties caused by natural or social factors, including statistical data on corn failures for 1891, 1906 and 1911 in the European part of Russia; the reduction dynamics of the grain cropped land and the productive cattle number in the RSFSR in 1913–1928; the share of the USSR agricultural territory occupied in 1941–1944; the dynamics of the USSR agricultural machinery fleet in 1940–1945; the dynamics of agricultural machinery and mineral fertilizers supplies for the USSR agriculture in 1940–1945. The paper concerns ways of solving food crisis, including technologies application that increase food production, such as biotechnology, genetic engineering, as well as the equal food distribution and public pressure to promote sovereign food programs, food production increase technologies.