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Evaluating The Strategic Potential of Azerbaijan’s FoodIndustry: Integrating Organic Development Pathways and “Smart” Technologies for Food Security in The Era of Global Challenges

Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This study examines the strategic potential and structural challenges of Azerbaijan’s food industry within the broader global context of food ‎security, climate stress, and the accelerating transition toward high-technology agriculture. The research highlights the systemic difficulties faced ‎by the international community in meeting the nutritional needs of a rapidly growing population, emphasizing the increasing relevance of ‎‎“smart” technologies, organic food production, and strengthened international cooperation. The Covid-19 pandemic further amplified global ‎vulnerabilities, revealing critical weaknesses in supply chains and reaffirming the necessity of resilient, technology-driven agro-industrial systems. ‎Empirical findings indicate that Azerbaijan possesses substantial capacity for expanding organic food production through efficient use of land ‎and water resources, particularly in the Karabakh and East Zangazur economic regions. Nevertheless, the sector continues to face constraints, ‎including limited innovation uptake, slow technology transfer, and insufficient mechanisms to promote investment in modern organic ‎production. The study argues that Azerbaijan’s transition toward a sustainable and competitive food industry requires an integrated national ‎strategy grounded in advanced agricultural technologies, strengthened institutional frameworks, and transparent governance mechanisms. The ‎research contributes to contemporary debates on food security by presenting policy recommendations aimed at enhancing innovation, ‎improving regulatory transparency, and increasing the availability of high-quality, safe, and organic food products‎.
DOI: 10.14419/39e30d88
Language: English
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W7110936769
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