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....

Agricultural financing is an important part of a formal and informal financial system focusing on rural areas. The results of several studies demonstrate that access to rural financial services has a positive impact on agricultural productivity, food security and poverty reduction. In our study, we ...

During the millennia of human history, certain social changes have been greatly influenced by the health condition of our domesticated animals, as well as by the quantity and quality of animal-based foods. The continuous growth of social demands concerning food supply, food safety, environment...

In this study, the authors review the legal background of food origin labelling in the European Union from 1979 to the present day, taking into consideration also the Hungarian regulatory framework on origin labelling. Country of origin and place of provenance related food labelling regulation is...

The world's population more than doubled between 1960 and 2010. The production of basic foods such as meat has even surpassed the world's population. Global crisis phenomena and animal epidemics have caused temporary breakdowns in the dynamics of production. Epidemics have led to market problems...

An overview is given of the history of food control systems in the European Union and the regulatory basis for the development of these systems, covering: the beginnings of EU food laws; factors driving changes in food laws; current food control systems and food safety legislation in the EU; the...

The current study is a part of a series of articles. Our goal is to present and summarise the basic tendencies of global and European agricultural development, its most important processes, the driving forces of changes and new challenges for the global agriculture and food supply system. A wide...

The aim of our survey was to investigate the main factors affecting the food purchase of 300 citizens living in the capital of an emerging economy. With the division of labour in the modern age, for many, the access to alimentary products and services is indirect, via the alimentary supply chain....

The food supply chain connects three important sectors - agriculture, the food processing industry and the distribution sectors. Key challenges identified for the food supply chain are the sub-optimal relationships between the stakeholders in the chain. Due to the large number of small and...