Global community is striving to find a solution to the urgent problem – provision of food security for the world’s rapidly growing population. More and more attention is paid to development of a competent strategy to ensure global food security. Ukraine takes an important place in these processes. Ukraine's role – either a raw materials exporter, ruthlessly exploiting black soils, or a producer of high-quality food products with innovative technologies - will be discussed at the International Forum “Food Strategy Initiative 2015”.Goals and initiatives: •    Reach an understanding of the future food market in 2050 - its main players, market capacity; discuss the structure of demand, raw material component, suppliers, competition; •   Create a basic platform for discussion and exchange of ideas between food industry experts, representatives of leading international food companies, ministries and agencies, international organizations, academic institutions, as a first step towards development of Ukraine’s food strategy; •    Identify key growth opportunities in food production, share progressive experience, promote new initiatives; •    Discuss the "road map" for food industry in the context of implementation of the Association Agreement and Free Trade area between Ukraine and the EU; •    Coordination of cooperation between business and government to improve competitiveness of Ukrainian food and processing industries in the domestic and foreign markets.