The Role of Geographic Information Systems in Ensuring Food Security in Countries During Epidemiological Crises

Sudden geospatial phenomena, whether natural or technocratic, regional, or global, including pandemics, confront industrial enterprises, including those in the chemical and technological complexes, with a new kind of uncertainty, creating new risks when making operational and strategic management decisions. These risks often have devastating consequences for economic and social agents caught in these geodynamic phenomena. Amongst the many kinds of dangers, the most economically and socially destructive are changes in consumer demand as related to quantitative, qualitative, and temporal parameters. These shockwaves can have dire effects, including the non-functionality of existing logistical systems, unrestrained costs, a terrifying level of unemployment, etc. In these dramatic scenarios, sector management must develop new strategies to deal with changes in the national economy, ensuring their ability to overcome factors that may otherwise destroy the existing socioeconomic parameters. To minimize these negative phenomena, it is necessary to develop a geographic information system (GIS), the elements of which entail dynamic information about all emerging risks, including the ability to ensure complete safety for all personnel, partners and suppliers, relations with government bodies and the public, and optimal use of financial resources. To build such an anti-crisis system, it is advisable to offer a scientific response to these challenges and many other problems associated with the operation of enterprises in such emergencies.