The dissertation is devoted to solving the scientific problem of substantiation of theoretical, methodological, methodical and practical principles of management of food safety in the management system of agrarian enterprises. The theoretical principles of observance of food safety in the management of activity of agrarian enterprises, its genesis and hierarchy of typology are substantiated. The content of safety of products in the system of food safety management is determined. The structural features of food security mechanisms and systems are revealed. The methodological principles of integration of food safety management tools in the management of agrarian enterprises, including at the level of supply of their products, have been developed. The methodical principles of food safety assessment and control are determined. The principles of safety of food products are realized in increasing the efficiency and competitiveness of agrarian enterprises. The estimation of the state and structural-dynamic tendencies of the proposal of agrarian enterprises to the requirements of food safety is evaluated. The level and peculiarities of infrastructure support for food safety are determined. Implementation of foreign experience in managing the safety of agrarian enterprises products has been implemented. Areas of improvement of the set of mechanisms of compliance with food security in the implementation of activities of agrarian enterprises. The necessity of introduction and use of marketing tools of morning positioning of safe food products is substantiated. Proposals for taking into account the special place of organic production in the management of the safety of products of agrarian enterprises have been developed. The systems of safety and quality management of food products of agrarian enterprises and their structure are substantiated. The strategies for managing the supply of agrarian enterprises products in the context of food security are developed. Innovative-investment reserves of increase of safety and quality of products of agrarian enterprises were revealed. In the work, the place and role of the agrarian enterprise as the basic hierarchical unit in the system of management of formation and reproduction of food security on the subjective, local, including entrepreneurial and national levels, as one that accumulates the necessary resources for food production, its supply in the market or distribution on the basis of social responsibility, has the appropriate managerial capacity to influence public opinion and to carry out food security activities without substantial additional material costs. The methodological principles of integration of food safety management tools into the management system of agrarian enterprises activity are defined through planning and observance of rational structure of production and channels of agricultural products realization; establishing conformity, responsibility centers and defining business processes by means of controlling; the use of standards and certificates of quality and safety of food products and the organization of an appropriate department or specialist in it. The theoretical principles of construction and functioning of mechanisms of food safety observance and its management in the system of management of agrarian enterprises in production-organizational, financial-economic, marketing, institutional, and motivational aspects are substantiated. The traditional set of principles for implementing the safety of food products is supplemented with principles of quality, informativity, social responsibility, monitoring and control, motivation and incentives. The safety of food products based on nutritional properties, environmental parameters, economic availability, share and ratios in food rations of crop and livestock products as a criterion for the formation of food security and the basis for its management in the tactical and strategic activities of agrarian enterprises have been determined. The estimation of the structure and efficiency and competitiveness of the supply of agri-food products has been carried out in line with the needs of food and their dynamics in the context of food safety and food security through the balance of production and consumption of food; the structure of production and the ratio of the particles of plant and animal industries; the presence of organic production; level of domestic consumption; cost and quality of food; implementation channels and the dynamics of these indicators.
