Public-private partnership in the agrarian sector as a factor in ensuring food security

The purpose is to determine theoretical and methodological approaches to creating mechanisms of public-private partnership (PPP) in agriculture. Methods — statistical-economic methods to study joint initiatives of the state and agribusiness that enable the public and private sectors, on mutually beneficial terms, to expand the resource base and channel unused funds toward stable development. Logical generalization of state-investment cooperation includes key characteristics: joint activities with differentiated risk allocation, long-term orientation, coordinated project management by society and entrepreneurs, and a focus on improving social infrastructure. Results — state support for the AIC contributes to increasing the competitiveness of agro-industrial production, providing additional resources that generate demand for profitable enterprises and enhance the sector’s attractiveness for credit and investment institutions. The transition to innovative transformation and economic modernization presupposes an active search for instruments to stimulate investment activity of private funds while maintaining an optimal balance between national interests and business structures. Conclusions — considering that the agrarian sector demonstrates optimistic indicators, attention should be focused on the advantages of PPP, which drive increased profitability of agricultural entities, saturation of the domestic market with high-quality and affordable food products, realization of the republic’s export potential, and growth of tax revenues. Improvement of the institutional, legal, and organizational environment of public-private partnership is required, along with professional training of management personnel and the development of PPP start-ups in the agro-industrial complex for offering them to potential domestic and foreign investors. The presence of such an alliance in the agrarian economy represents a new stage of its renewal, signifying the implementation of neo-industrialization and the development of promising technologies and other productions constituting the core of a new technological paradigm.

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