Features indicators of food availability

Abstract

Solving problems support of population major food possible under the conditions detailed evaluation and analysis of key indicators of food security. One of the principles of food safety are the principles of economic and physical accessibility. Their study will answer the question of how the population of Ukraine may be provided with food and how it is able to provide a balanced diet in accordance with physiological norms of nutrition. Such research may study the conditions of supply and demand elasticity’s using cross-elasticity, and the number of research kcal per 1% of the population food expenses in total household expenditures, and the cost per unit of energy daily diet and consumer prices, along with other existing indicators of food availability. The presence of substitute products and products complement-forming response (sensitivity) to the extent of consumer demand for related products. Therefore there is a need to study the cross-elasticity of demand.