AGRICULTURAL SECTOR IN THE CONTEXT OF GREEN MODERNIZATION OF ECONOMY
Authors:   Vinnytsia National Agrarian University, Ukraine, Kovalchuk Svitlana 
Published: July 2022

Integration processes that cover the agricultural sector determine the vectors of agricultural production, the state of ecosystems, climate change and environmental degradation, exacerbated by their uneven distribution and increasing pollution, imbalance of development, overcoming which exceeds the capabilities of individual states and need to respond to through broad international cooperation. The study identified the need for a green course, characterized by complex environmental, economic and social interrelationships; the experience of the European Union countries in the direction of green restructuring is analyzed; the importance of the impact of climate change on the development of agricultural production is outlined; key EU documents on the path of green modernization are described; the necessity of resource-saving development is substantiated. Emphasis was placed on the need to intensify efforts to introduce a circular economy to counter the negative effects of climate change and crises. Based on the situation when key indicators of green growth are included in the most important documents of the country’s development, but they are not calculated due to lack of appropriate standards of statistics and accounting, which increases the inability to conduct comparative analysis against regional and global results. This makes it difficult to use them in decision-making on green modernization at all levels and to inform the public.It is substantiated that the strategic directions of the transition to a circular model of agricultural production development, the Ukrainian government together with business and civil society, it is advisable to develop separate roadmaps or action plans with clear directions of expected results. In the presence of clear European guidelines for modernization, it is necessary to use financial support instruments as much as possible. The implementation of closed-loop models in practice will stimulate increased environmental responsibility and economic efficiency of agricultural production, will improve the overall environmental situation and will be key steps in environmentally oriented development of the agricultural sector. The aim of the article is to analyze the transformation processes in the agricultural sector, which are caused by climate change, depletion of natural assets and justification of the importance of green modernization of the economy of agricultural production. Realization of the purpose has led to the decision of research tasks: to substantiate necessity of formation of change of a paradigm of development of agrarian sector, to analyze tendencies of introduction of green modernization in the EU countries, to prove expediency of necessity of transition to model of green economy. Domestic agricultural sector, and to ensure the economic and environmental security of the country, because only a circular, resource-saving economy is able to ensure sustainable economic development without harming the environment. Methodology: the research methodology is based on the dialectical method, which involves the connection of theory and practice, the principles of knowledge of the real world, the determinism of phenomena and processes of interaction between external and internal. The following research methods were used: system-structural; abstract-logical; comparative. Results: According to the results of the study, the degree of modernization of the country’s agricultural sector to the EU requirements for a green economy, the European dimension of “green” growth in agriculture, substantiated the feasibility and need for resource-saving agricultural development.