THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF THE FOOD BELT PROCESS

Abstract

At the present stage of development of society, ensuring food security of the territory is becoming one of the main problems of a global nature, increasing its relevance. Agriculture is the basic sector of the national economy that provides the population with food, industry with raw materials, as well as an important factor in the development of individual regions. The article presents the theoretical foundations of the study of the food belt the works of foreign and domestic scientific researchers, the initial conditions for the formation and development. Various theories of spatial development are also systematically considered, their laws and features are studied. As a result of the analysis, the opinions of the authors who substantiated the concept of the food belt were summarized. Along with the directions of Geographical Study of the territorial structure of Agriculture, the article also considers the formation of new geographical methods of Agricultural Research. In order to determine the meaning of the concept of "Suburban agriculture" with a theoretical– methodological and applied problem, a comprehensive analysis of the approaches of foreign and domestic authors has been carried out.