Development of Branches of Agro-Industrial Complex During Improvement of Food Sovereignty of Russian Regions

The article discusses the aspects of establishment of food sovereignty from the regional point of view. Herewith, it is mentioned that the established food sovereignty of a state should be based on food sovereignty of regions as separate administrative and territorial units. The most prioritized field of development of agro-industrial complex is rational distribution and efficient specialization of agricultural and processing utilities. In this regard the article proposes a procedure to zone territories on the basis of specialization level of agriculture, which makes it possible to reveal the most competitive branches. Optimal territorial specialization would play one of the major roles with regard to food sovereignty of regions and recovery of fully functional interregional links at the Russian food markets. Comprehensive analysis has been performed for the regions of Volga Federal District of Russian Federation. Based on ranking of the obtained results the most competitive regions of the considered Federal District have been revealed in terms of number of agricultural branches. The performed study into agro-industrial complex of the regions has facilitated establishment of long-term measures aimed at increase in efficiency of branches of agro-industrial complex.