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...

Prior to enlargement regulations and the subsidy system played an important role in stabilising, especially, the livestock sectors, producers got used to national intervention mechanism, and production became rather insensitive to market signals. This, along with other shortcomings, caused...

Az Európai Bizottság 2011. október 12-én nyilvánosságra hozott elképzelései szerint a közvetlen támogatások rendszere előreláthatóan olyan irányba változik, amely Magyarország számára elfogadható, a magyar agrárpolitika törekvéseihez megfelelő eszközöket kínál. Az...

The paper analyses the impact of EU enlargement on the agricultural markets in the 10 New Member States (EU-N10). A high level of integration of markets of the EU-25 was achieved prior to enlargement. 65% of all agricultural exports of the EU-N10 and 69% of all imports went to EU-25 destinations...

The paper analyses the impact of EU enlargement on the agricultural markets in the 10 New Member States (EU-N10). A high level of integration of markets of the EU-25 was achieved prior to enlargement. 65% of all agricultural exports of the EU-N10 and 69% of all imports went to EU-25 destinations...

Limited land is available globally to grow crops for food and fuel. There are direct and indirect pressures on forests and other lands to be converted from growing food for feedstock to be used for biofuel production. The balance of evidence indicates there will probably be sufficient...

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...

A dráguló olajár „felszínre hozta†a fosszilis energiahordozók környezetbarát energiahordozókkal való kiváltásának problémáját. Az olajkészletek korlátozottsága mellett a bizonytalan kitermelés és a folyamatosan növekvő árak a bioüzemanyagok felé irányítják...