Pioneering development of Italian national agroindustrial complex in the context of ensuring food security

The main goal of the present work is to form the basis of organizational and economic mechanism of pioneering development of agroindustrial complex of Italy in order to increase the national level of food security suitable for extrapolating this experience on other developed countries and countries in transition. In order to achieve the set goal, the work studied basic peculiarities of social and economic development of Italy within the European Union, researched theoretical and methodological approaches to solving the problem of food security, offered solutions contributing to the transfer of agroindustrial complex of Italy to the innovational way of development that will contribute to the growth of national food security. In the article special methods of research were used: content analysis of scientific sources, comparative economic and statistical analysis based on using open data. The results of the research include the development of basic recommendations on forming organizational and economic mechanism that provides the transfer of agroindustrial complex of Italy to the pioneering way of development that will contribute to the growth of food security of the country. The obtained results and conclusions may be used to solve similar problems in agroindustrial complexes of other countries. © 2016, SRAC - Societatea Romana Pentru Asigurarea Calitatii. All rights reserved.