“粮食安全是‘国之大者’”的政治经济学逻辑

The Political-Economic Logic of“Food Security Is Among a Country’s Most Fundamental Interests”

粮食事关国运民生,粮食安全是国家安全的重要基础。粮食作为一种特殊产品,具有多重属性。更深入地理解粮食的多重属性,必须回到政治经济学生产—消费—交换—分配的分析框架中,区分利益主体在国民经济各环节中的角色地位。从粮食安全的多重属性出发,可以发现当前我国粮食安全责任制落实过程中还存在粮食安全责任上移、责任外移、只算经济账不算政治账、只算眼前账不算长远账等矛盾和障碍。保障粮食安全,农业发展是根本,利益协调是条件,党政同责是保障,农民主体是基础。

Food security,which concerns a country’s destiny and people’s livelihood,is an important foundation for national security.Food as a special product has multiple attributes.To understand them more deeply,it is essential to return to the analytical framework of production-consumption-exchange-distribution in political economics to distinguish the roles and positions of stakeholders in each link of the national economy.Viewed from the multiple attributes of food security,it can be found that in implementing the food security responsibility system,there still exist contradictions and obstacles such as the upward and/or outward shifts of responsibilities,calculation of only economic accounts but not political ones,and only current accounts but not long-term ones.To guarantee food security,agricultural development is the foundation,coordination of interests the condition,shared responsibilities of the Party and the Government the assurance,and peasants as the main body the basis.