Study trip to Portugal
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…
EIP Operational Group meeting in the Soil-X-Change project
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…
Cash Crop conference in Spain
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 first meeting of the national AKIS network
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…
EU-FarmBook online training for uploaders
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…
EU-FarmBook Ambassadors workshop in Dublin
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 research was published in the scientific journal Quality & Quantity
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…
Development of sustainable food systems at the heart of the EU
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…
AdvisoryNetPEST project kicked off
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…
New Agricultural Statistics Pocketbook published
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…
AKI presentation at the Agroecology Europe Forum 2023
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…
V4GreenReporting – Kickoff meeting at AKI
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…
Another project with AKI participation – ET4D
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…
1st online meeting – V4GreenReporting
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…
Green evaluation of food industries in V4 countries from EU Taxonomy perspective – V4GreenReporting
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…
Soil – Carbon and Water Bank of the Landscape
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…
European Biomass Conference and Exhibition 2023
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…
Hungarian National Open Lab in the BIKE project
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).…
Science policy interface on agricultural water management
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…
SPI: Organic value chain in Hungary
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…
LivestockSense – final meeting in Jerusalem
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 in Thessaloniki with the BIKE project
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 CLEVERFOOD project has been launched
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…
LivestockSense – Focus group discussion at AKI
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 European Thematic Network held its first major event of the year in Budapest
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…
New Agricultural Statistics Pocketbook is published
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…
Our colleagues at the launch event of the modernAKIS project in Rome
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…
The EU FarmBook project started with the opening event in Florence
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 ATTRACTISS project started with the participation of AKI
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…
AKI in Greece for the BIKE project’s 4th Progress meeting
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…
Bike Open Lab – Sardinia
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.…
Financial opportunities for the bioeconomy in the EU
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,…
A bunch of winning projects: our participation in the HORIZON EUROPE programme
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…
Successful EUREKA project ends with EU FarmBook launch events
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 stepped forward through an online partner meeting
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…
YOUCooperATE project has been finished successfully
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…
Farm Well, a story about farm life today
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…
Cost, income and financial results – Hungarian FADN reports
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…
Students have learned to cooperate
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…
Kick-off Meeting of LivestockSense project
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…
Workshop on the challenges affecting the well-being of farmers in the framework of the FARMWELL project
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…
”LivestockSense”: the applicability of digital technologies in livestock farming
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…
EU FarmBook knowledge platform – a reliable source of information for local users
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 project aiming to create a European Knowledge Repository ended with an online national event
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…
The FLINT project is one of the establishing projects of the Farm Sustainability Data Network
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…
The publication of retail buying prices in AKI MPIS has started
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…
Kick-off of the FARMWELL H2020 project
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…
A cooperation agreement has been signed between the Institute of Agricultural Economics and the Óbuda University
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.…
