GEO-POLITICS AND GEO-ECONOMICS OF UKRAINE AND THE CIS: AGRO – FOOD PRODUCTS TRADE ISSUES

Abstract

The turbulences in the global geo-political relations impact the geo-economical ones as well and vice versa. The interrelations of the mentioned issues influence the said ones on the supra-national, continental, national and regional levels. The sphere of agricultural and food products trade is extremely vibrant to such fluctuations as  help fulfil the lack of food or its shortage, giving consumers access to the products of bigger variety and quality at lower prices. The following methods of scientific research were used, while conducting the research, as empirical, comparative and statistical analyses, including data mining, cleaning and processing, methods of correlation measuring like Pearson, Spearman and Kendal correlation tests, the method of exclusion, as well as textual and tabular methods as well as the ones for data visualization, etc. Together with the changes in the political relations, the economic and trade ones for the analysed subjects changed as well, redirecting the Ukrainian agricultural products imports from the Russian Federation and Belarus to the Central Asian and Caucasian countries. The research results showed, that the agricultural products imports to Ukraine from the following countries pairs appeared to be correlated: Armenia with Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Uzbekistan; Azerbaijan with Georgia and Uzbekistan; Belarus with Georgia and Tajikistan; Georgia with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; Kyrgyz Republic with the Russian Federation. The research and its results would be of interest for the public administration officials, dealing either with the agricultural production or trade, small farmers and big agro holdings managers, small and big agro traders, politicians and decision makers, academic society representatives as well as the statisticians and data analysts.