The author’s methodology for assessing the competitiveness of the regions of the Republic of Belar­us by economic, environmental, social blocks, taking into account the Sustainable Development Goals, is presented. The novelty lies in the complex determination of the competitiveness of the regions, reflecting the economic, environmental and social situation. Indicators are proposed for calculating the integral index and rating assessment of the level of competitiveness in the context of three blocks, not only for the analyzed regions, but also for the republic, taking into account the influence of external and internal factors in order to ensure sustainable development.

   Food security occupies a special place in the system of national security of Kazakhstan, since the availability of food serves as a basic indicator of human activity. The country’s maximum participation in the international division of labor in the agro­industrial complex depends on solving the problem of food security. The choice of directions is determined by economic opportunities of the country, its role in the world, conducting of domestic agro­food policy, determination of advanced development strategy of agroindustrial complex, its basic branch – agriculture. Kazakhstan is the largest exporter of grain and takes leading place in the world in flour export. Thanks to good harvests in recent years, Kazakhstan was able to strengthen its ability to stabilize prices in the markets of Central Asia, Russian Federation, the Middle East, Europe and the Caucasus and improve its own prospects in terms of food security in the adjacent regions. The agriculture of Kazakhstan is in urgent need of modernization of its material and technical base, more advanced technologies and more effective and targeted state support, without which its dynamic development observed in recent years will be at risk.

   The peculiarities of the relationship between producers in the sugar beet subcomplex on the example of existing business models in the European Union and the Russian Federation are considered. The main elements of balanced interaction between the participants in the value chains (current actors, price formation mechanism, terms of delivery and processing of beet raw materials, advance payment of costs, measures of government support) were determined. Current problems and long­term risks of producers’ development in the context of value chain have been identified.