The publication provides information on developments and the situation in agriculture, forestry, and the food industry in 2024. Statistical data published in previous pocketbooks were used to ensure comparability of…
The event series entitled “The Future of Farmers, the Farmers of the Future” has successfully kicked off in Kóny. The programme is jointly organised by the Hungarian Association of Young…
Gábor Király, Adél Seprődi and Anett Gundel-Fekete took part in the international conference “Healthy Soils as the Foundation of Change”, organized in Nitra by the Slovak Bioeconomy Cluster within the…
The study tour to Slovakia, organized on October 7 by the ITE – which operates within the Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) –, the Slovak Bioeconomy Cluster, and the Soil-X-Change…
Within the framework of the BIOEAST project, the Open Innovation Challenge (OIC) has been launched to accelerate innovation across key bioeconomy sectors. This collaborative initiative brings together students, researchers, start-ups,…
In July 2025, we installed the Enviro-Detect™ microclimate and air quality sensor in the calf barn at Hunland’s site in Bugyi as part of the ET4D project testing phase. The…
As part of the AdvisoryNetPEST Horizon Europe project, which aims to reduce pesticide use, each partner country is required to organize one cross-visit per year. The purpose of these visits…
The AKI Directorate for Sustainability organised an awareness raising, informative workshop in the framework of the project “Innovative education in gastronomy to support the sustainability of food systems (InGUPS) 2022-1-SK01-KA220-HED-000087766″…
The comprehensive scientific results of the V4GreenReporting project, led by AKI and supported by the International Visegrad Fund, were published as an e-book on 28 May 2025. The book is…
A joint meeting was held at the Research Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) by the Innovation and Digitization Support Unit (ITE) and the Soil-X-Change project, along with domestic representatives of…
In the framework of the V4GreenReporting project, a high-quality hybrid closing conference and roundtable discussions were organised by the project coordinators as a final event of the public events, directed…
On 21 March, 2025, the Hungarian Soil Science Society (MTT) organized a nationwide awareness-raising campaign titled “SOIL Beneath Your Feet”. The event aimed to highlight the condition and importance of…
The 2nd European Carbon Farming Summit was held in Dublin between 4-6 March 2025, with the participation of Csilla Óvári, Dávid Pozsonyi and Péter Szabó, representing the AKI (Institute of…
Another result of our previous research in Hungary, which is the basis of the V4GreenReporting project, was published in the February 2025 issue of the scientific journal Discover Sustainability. The…
In order to achieve the European Union’s climate neutrality objective, it is essential to capture atmospheric carbon dioxide, as there will always be sectors that emit greenhouse gases (GHG). Soil…
In the framework of the V4GreenReporting project the Czech partner (AMBIS, Prague) organised a high-quality public academic event and roundtable discussion under the patronage of the Czech Ministry of Agriculture…
An international consortium, commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA), is examining several policy instruments to identify appropriate incentives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the…
With the support of the International Visegrad Fund, in the framework of the V4GreenReporting project, the Albert Kázmér Mosonmagyaróvár Faculty of Széchenyi István University (SZE AKMK) organised a high quality…
With the support of the International Visegrad Fund, in the framework of the V4GreenReporting project, the Slovak partner (SUA, Nitra) organised a high quality public academic workshop on the achievements…
AKI colleagues, Pál Goda, Managing Director and Szabolcs Vágó, Director’s Advisor and Head of Division at EIP-AGRI, participated in the Team Week of EU CAP Network’s Support Facility for Innovation…
The Agroecology Thematic Working Group of the BIOEAST Initiative – in the framework of the BOOST4BIOEAST project – organises an online science-policy dialogue on 9th October 2024 between 10:00-12:00 (CET).…
Our colleagues participated at a study trip in Portugal, where they had a chance to get to know many new solutions regarding irrigation and water usage. Climate change poses a…
The Soil-X-Change project, together with the national CAP network, held the first EIP Operational Group meeting on 14 June 2024. Four Hungarian EIP AGRI Operational Group coordinators, who have experience…
The agribenchmark Cash Crop network held its annual conference for network members in Valladolid, Spain, between 9-16 June this year, where AKI was represented by Zsuzsa Molnár and Ildikó Edit…
The newly established Innovation and Digitalisation Support Unit (hereinafter: ITE) of the AKI held the first meeting of the Hungarian AKIS (Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems) stakeholders on the 5th…
The EU-FarmBook is organising several training sessions to support contributors in uploading practice-oriented materials and in integrating or connecting project platforms or EU, regional, national, or sector-level online knowledge reservoirs…
The EU-FarmBook Ambassadors Reflection and Refinement workshop was held on 9-12 April 2024 in Teagasc Ashtown Food Research Centre close to Dublin, in which our colleague Szabolcs Vágó participated. He…
Our previous Hungarian research, on which the V4GreenReporting project is based, was published in Quality & Quantity in April 2024. The main issue of the study is the compliance with…
The “FOOD 2030 Networks Conference on Transformative Food System Innovation” was organised under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency from 5-7 March 2024 in Brussels in the framework of the…
The Institute of Agricultural Economics is a partner in the recently started AdvisoryNetPEST project, that is funded by the EU’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and will…
The publication provides information on the developments and situation in agriculture, forestry and food industry in 2022. Statistical data published in previous pocketbooks were used to provide comparability of time…
Between 16 and 18 November 2023, the Agroecology Europe Forum 2023 was held in Gyöngyös, Hungary. The international conference was attended by about 300 farmers, researchers, representatives of NGOs, project…
The AKI held the kickoff meeting of the V4GreenReporting research programme in Budapest on 22-24 November 2023. On the professional day of this methodological meeting, 23 November 2023, the representatives…
The uptake of new digital technologies has been slow because many sensor technologies, are expensive for farmers, while they are often limited to a small range of applications.The ET4D project…
The AKI held the first online session of the V4GreenReporting research programme on 3 November 2023. The aim of the meeting was to introduce the participants in person, to agree…
AKI, with the support of the International Visegrad Fund, started an 18-month-long V4 Grant research programme in October 2023. The consortium (AKI, SZE in Győr, SUA in Nitra, AMBIS in…
On 22nd June 2023, Kennedy Mutua represented the Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) in the Hungarian Delegation led by Dr. Anikó Juhász, Deputy State Secretary for Agriculture, in a bilateral…
On 8th to 10th June AKI as partner of BIKE project participated in the European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EUBCE) 2023. This being the first physical conference since Covid-ERA. The…
On 13th June 2023, the Hungarian BIKE Partners (AKI Nonprofit Ltd. in partnership with Discovery Center Nonprofit Ltd.) organized a national BIKE Open Lab in Hungary (in Nagylók and Szabadegyháza).…
The VISIONARY project’s second science policy interface took place on 1 June in Budapest. The topic this time was agricultural water management from the perspective of farmers’ collaboration. With the…
The first series of VISIONARY science policy interfaces (SPI) has been launched. Multiple participatory forums will be established in the upcoming weeks to spark interactions, co-learning and capacity building between…
The final consortium meeting of the LivestockSense (Enhancing environmental sustainability of livestock farms by removing barriers for adopting ICT technologies) project was held in Jerusalem on 3-4 April 2023, hosted…
AKI participated in the BIKE project series of events in Thessaloniki between 29–31 March 2023. Three colleagues represented the institute at the event, where a high level of engagement on Europe’s…
The overarching objective of CLEVERFOOD is to mobilise all European food system stakeholders at the local, regional, national and supra-national level and develop transformative governance models to shift the FS…
In the framework of the LivestockSense project, the AKI Institute of Agricultural Economics invited stakeholders involved in precision livestock farming (PLF) in the pig and poultry sector to a focus…
The first major event of the year 2023 for the FARMWELL project was the 3rd meeting of the ever-expanding European Thematic Network on 12 and 13 January in Budapest. The…
The publication provides information on the developments and situation in agriculture, forestry and food industry in 2021. Statistical data published in previous pocketbooks were used to provide comparability of time…
The physical launch event of the Horizon Europe project modernAKIS was held in Rome on 7–9 November 2022, with the participation of our colleagues Dr. Pál Goda Managing Director, Lívia…
Florence hosted the kick-off meeting of the EU FarmBook project, held on October 19-21, 2022, where after the previously held online kick-off, the project participants could also meet physically and…
The kick-off meeting of the ATTRACTISS project was held on October 17-19, 2022 in Florence with the participation of our colleagues Lívia Kránitz and Dr. Szabolcs Vágó. The event took…
After a long period of virtual meetings due to COVID-19 pandemic policies across Europe, on 28-29 September 2022, AKI staff participated in the EU-funded H2020 project BIKE Progress meeting led…
On 5-6th September 2022, AKI participated in the BIKE (Biofuels production at Low-ILUC risk for European Sustainable Bioeconomy) project’s Open Lab in Sardinia (Italy) held at the Bonifiche Ferrasi Farm.…
A webinar on the opportunities of the 6th Cluster of Horizon Europe and the Circular Biobased Europe Partnership (CBE JU) was held on 28 April with more than 110 participants,…
The Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) is one of Hungary’s most successful institutions in terms of participation in projects under Horizon 2020 and Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research…
The EUREKA H2020 project has successfully achieved its main objective of creating a European online agricultural knowledge repository and knowledge transfer system called EU FarmBook, which supports farmers, advisors and…
The FARMWELL project’s Hungarian, British, Dutch, Belgian, Italian, Greek, Polish and Romanian consortium members, with the participation of the Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) and the Hungarian Social Farms Alliance…
The YOUCooperATE (“Youth Education Cooperation for the Renewal of Agriculture”) project, in which experts from five countries worked together to develop an innovative educational methodology for expanding the knowledge and…
Being a farmer today is not easy. In the framework of the H2020 FARMWELL project a touching short film was created about farmers and farmer families by the New Heroes…
We proudly present our new reports about agricultural products and farms data. Both contain time series data that are updated annually. The first interactive visualization is focusing on the main…
In the framework of the YOUCooperATE (Youth Cooperation for Agricultural Renewal through Education) project implemented in partnership with five countries (Bulgaria, Latvia, Hungary, Italy, Romania), the Institute of Agricultural Economics…
The kick-off meeting of the two-year long international R&D project “LivestockSense: Enhancing environmental sustainability of livestock farms by removing barriers for adopting ICT technologies” was held online on the 13th…
As part of the FARMWELL project, the first workshop of the “Practice Group” (PG) was held on the 22nd of June 2021. The aim of the online workshop i.e. the…
The Institute of Agricultural Economics (AKI) is going to participate in a two-year-long project, „Enhancing environmental sustainability of livestock farms by removing barriers for adopting ICT technologies (LivestockSense)”, funded by…
A user-friendly farmers knowledge reservoir is very much needed in Hungary, that is why it is important for NAK and AKI to be a part of the EUREKA project and…
The event jointly organized by NAK and AKI on 22nd March 2021, was the national closing event of the international EURAKNOS project in Hungary. Without effective knowledge transfer, innovation results…
A conference on “Development of information systems and data management practices for CAP evaluation” was organized by the ENRD between 16th and 17th of March. The Sen4CAP (Sentinels for Common…
To enhance agricultural and food market transparency at EU level, the price notification obligation has been expanded from the 1st of January 2021. In Hungary, the price notification obligation is…
FARMWELL is a Horizon 2020 Thematic Network that aims at identifying and making social innovations more accessible to address common social challenges and improve the wellbeing of farmers. The serious…
Institute of Agricultural Economics and Óbuda University signed a cooperation agreement, laying down the basis of common projects, tenders, applied research activity, professional networking and organisation of joint professional events.…
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