ROMANIA’S FOOD SECURITY EVALUATION FROM THE DOMESTIC AGRICULTURAL SUPPLY AVAILABILITY PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

Abstract:  The availability and stability of the agricultural  supply represents a main factor in ensuring food security for the population. Although Romania has significant agricultural resources, it is one of the most vulnerable European countries from the population’s food security point of view, according to the evaluations made by different international organizations. The main objective of the paper refers to the identification of structural factors that lead to this chronic insufficiency of the Romanian agri-food domestic supply. For this purpose, the paper makes an updating and re-evaluation of the problems related to Romania’s productive potential, in the context of the present evolutions of the agrarian and production structures and of the possible effects of the future Common Agricultural Policy Reform.