Study of innovative development in agricultural production as a factor of sustainable development

Abstract

The work examines the impact of innovative development of agro-industrial production of countries on their sustainable development. The analysis was based on 24 countries - the largest exporters of agro-industrial products, located on almost all continents, and representing different groups in terms of economic development. By applying the method of cluster analysis, three clusters of countries were obtained: cluster 1 (Argentina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Mexico, Romania, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine), which includes countries with a predominantly agricultural economy that is developing extensively. through development with low yields, high agricultural land share, low innovation costs, corresponding to low life expectancy and GDP per capita; an increase in spending on innovation in these countries does not have an effective impact on the growth of value added in the agro-industrial sectors of this group of countries; cluster 2 (Germany, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland), which includes countries with a highly innovative agroindustrial sector, which does not have a systemic importance in the overall structure of the economy, but is characterized by a high level of productivity, a low share of resource costs, and a high level of costs on innovation, and, accordingly, on high living standards of the population: life expectancy, GDP per capita; cluster 3 (Australia, Canada, China, Estonia, USA), which includes countries with an industrial and post-industrial structure of the economy, with a high population, respectively - with an extensive model of agro-industrial complex development, with high living standards of the population, but with high load ecosystem.