Importance: Food problem at the present stage of development of mankind is that due to improper and overly intensive use of natural resources, increasing demand for livestock products, increasing per capita food consumption and other factors, there has been a steady rise in food prices, represents a threat to food security in the countries with the lowest levels of development, as well as for the poorest segments of the population in developed and developing countries. It should again be emphasized that food will only grow in the future, therefore, from the point of view of attempts to address the global food problem, it can go about creating economic and technological preconditions for curbing price growth. Objectives: The purpose of this article is research of global food security problems in the modern world economy. Methods: In this article by means of methods of the analysis, logical generalization, scientific abstraction global food security problems in the modern world economy are investigated. Results: The main task in the context of a global food problem is control of increase in prices for food which decision lays down on shoulders developed and developing countries.

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