The Institute of Regional and Agricultural Economics was founded by the integration of three previously independent departments: Agribusiness and Management, International Economic Relations and Regional Sciences and Statistics.
Our main resources are our experiences, diversity and team spirit. Relying on these, we serve the development and formulation of sustainable and viable rural and urban areas based on our research and education activities.
Among these, we have a special focus on:
- theoretical and practical issues of territorial processes and inequalities,
- current environmental sustainability issues,
- economic systems for sustainable food supply,
- analysis of the major world economic systems, with particular attention to international economic relations.
Our mission is to contribute to the training of professionals who know the global social and economic processes and challenges and who are able to react on these on an effective and local way.
Main research areas and orientation
Keywords of our research activity: territory – economy – environment – food
Our main research packages
- spatial processes inequalities, theoretical and practical possibilities of managing these policy areas
- complex issues of territorial and environmental sustainability;
- analysis and planning of sustainable food supply systems: agro-economics, agricultural logistics, international trade, the economics of livestock farming, domestic and international situation of food waste.
- the relevant policies of the European Union in practice
Research projects
- Internal and external resources of sustainable spatial development
- Complex territorial economic development based local resources (Cecília Mezei)
- Loss measurement in milk and crop supply chain (Csaba Borbély)
- The effects of climate change and the sustainability of the agroecosystems’ biodiversity based on the agroforestry systems (Arnold Csonka)
- A complex economic evaluation of agroforest technologies and farms (Csaba Borbély)
- Possibilities of the introductions of sustainable resource management based on agroforestry in Tab district (Kinga Szabó)
- Effects of current EU issues on the budget of rural development (Kinga Szabó, Diána Koponicsné Györke)
- Central-European studies (Ferenc Szávai)
- Transnational and global processes in the Balkan region (Ferenc Szávai)
Partnership
- Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Osijek
- Koppányvölgyi Vidékfejlesztési Közhasznú Egyesület (Koppány Valley Rural Development Association)
- Sapientia EMTE – Romania
- EU – Committee of Regions – Commission for Natural Researches
- Krizevci Agricultural College – Croatia
- EDUCONS University – Serbia
