Proceedings of the International scientific and practical conference ―Research Horizons in the Modern World‖ (March 27-29, 2026) / Publisher website: www.naukainfo.com. – Warsaw, Poland, 2026. - 135 p.

20 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS UDC 339 Abramovych K. 1st-year phd student Mazurenko V. Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Kyiv, Ukraine FOOD SECURITY IN THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION: SYSTEMIC RISKS AND GLOBAL IMPLICATIONS Abstract. This article examines food security challenges in the context of deepening economic globalization and armed conflicts of the second quarter of the 21st century. The study aims to analyze the mechanisms by which regional armed conflicts transform into systemic threats to global food security. Drawing on a comprehensive methodological approach — combining open-source intelligence (OSINT) analysis, content analysis, comparative case studies, supply chain reconstruction, and scenario modelling using food security indices (IPC, WFP Global Hunger Index) — the article investigates the cascading effects of the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz following the armed conflict involving Iran (February 2026) on global fertilizer, energy, and food supply chains. It is established that globalization, while diversifying food sources, simultaneously generates systemic vulnerability to disruptions at critical logistical nodes. A structural asymmetry is identified between developed economies and countries of the Global South, attributable to differences in