It is specified in the article, that globalization as the international economic system (global economy) embraces global production, exchange and consumption carried out by enterprises in national economies and in the world market. Now days it is not simply an environment where certain social and economic events occur, it is the principal moving force for the said events, this also being true for the economic activity in the agri-food sector. The data on the behavior of the production parameters of foods in Ukraine (namely cereals and flour, meat and milk products, food oils, alcohol), adduced in the article, prove the toughest effect of world agri-food market upon the domestic food and processing industry. The conclusion is drawn, that Ukraine has a sufficient raw material base, high potential of self-sufficiency in products and development of export. At the same time, the technical and technological level of production, the state of fixed assets will require substantial renewal. They slow down the growth of domestic industrial production: the low purchasing power of the population and the lack of financial capacity of enterprises.