Agricultural Involvement in Hungarian Society Since EU Accession
Agricultural Involvement in Hungarian Society Since EU Accession

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the links of the Hungarian population to agriculturebetween 2005 and 2021. It discusses the consequences of depeasantisation in recentdecades, the decline of small-scale food production (food self-provisioning and subsistencefarming) and in the involvement in agriculture. Our analysis is based on statistical data,and a series of representative surveys from 2005, 2015, 2018 and 2021. The results notonly show how food production and agricultural involvement has decreased, but alsothe social patterns of participation and involvement in agriculture. The extremely rapiddecline of the agricultural population and the changes in the proportions of participatinggroups, and in a wider perspective, the consequences of Hungarian depeasantisation in aninternational comparison and its impact on sustainability and environmental values.

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