What challenges will Hungary face when it assumes the presidency in early 2011? Close cooperation will be required of the Presidential Trio when identifying presidential priorities. To garner both social and political support it is vital that, during Hungary’s EU presidency, one be...

This paper focuses on global responsibility of food, energy and environmental security. World population growth will lead to increasing demand for food and feed with increasing meat consumption. With globalization and urbanization production is moving to the most competitive countries and...

This paper discusses Hungarian agriculture’s future perspectives up to the year 2013, which marks the end of the EU financial period 2007-2013. It presents results of the authors’ modelling work, and provides a brief analysis of quantitative changes in principal macro-indicators...

In recent years the Hungarian milk sector has had serious problems. Since the EU accession, domestic milk production has continuously declined, the balance of the foreign trade of milk and dairy products has deteriorated year after year and the degree of self-sufficiency has fallen below 100%....

Chemical pesticides will continue to play a role in pest management for the future. In many situations, the benefits of pesticide use are high relative to the risks or there are no practical alternatives. The number and diversity of biological sources will increase, and products that originate...

This paper assesses the impacts of the global financial and economic crisis on the agro-food sector of Central and Eastern European, Caucasus and Central Asian countries on the basis of research conducted in Hungary, Ukraine, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. The objective of the study was to propose...