Famine is a global situation in which a large number of individuals in a country or region have no acces to appropriate food in order to survive. The majority of the countrie saffected by famine are located in Africa but famine occurs all around the world, even in Europe and in another developed...

Food insecurity is a salient dimension of household poverty and a crucial issue viewed on a global or within a country level. It applies not only to less-developed countries, but also to countries of the European Union. In the European conditions, it implies that people affected by this problem...

The present work is a selection of empirical studies focusing on the characteristics and attitudes of Short Food Supply Chain (SFSC) consumers. Using a systematic literature review approach (PRISMA), we identified five different aspects of the SFSC within the publications: producer participation,...

In the heart of the western civilization, mainly in the European Union, we are more interested in the quality of the food than in its quantity. Due to our ever - changing world we have to pay more attention to the future of the latter, namely to food security. As food security depends on global...

After the EU accession agriculture in Visegrad countries went through difficult times, sometimes called second phase of agricultural transformation. Production patterns changed as well as changed self-sufficiency in particular products. And because land is being constantly lost, not only due to...

The maize is one of the most important agricultural export product in Hungary. The paper investigates the role of the economic crisis and trade costs in the pattern of Hungarian maize exports over the period 1996-2015. We employ a standard gravity model to explain the drivers of the Hungarian maize ...

Crises affect the whole economy, but their impacts vary from sector to sector. The last two crises from Hungarian aspect (the global financial crisis in 2008 and the embargo against Russia in 2014) have resulted in a decline in international agri-food trade and an increase in agricultural prices....

This article examines local food system (LFS) development pathways in the context of recent regulatory reforms in Hungary implemented to promote local product sales and short food supply chains (SFSCs). Taking a SFSC approach, two case studies demonstrate how new types of local food systems...

Social enterprises have both economic and social motivations. This hybridity also determines their business model: these companies survive economically in a sometimes very competitive market by fulfilling their main objectives to achieve their social mission. In Hungary, the number of social...

The pressing need for the radical transformation towards more sustainable agricultural and food systems, which only recently gained substantially more acknowledgement, staged several underutilised crops in new roles. Legumes have become the primary focus of research and analytical attention first...