Abstract
Two comprehensive research projects were recently completed by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on the development problems of the Hungarian food and agricultural sector. In these studies agroecological factors were stressed.
Using the models developed in these projects, results could be easily produced to answer questions raised within IIASA’s Task 2 effort. Thus, information could be obtained about technologies that provide for a rational, sustainable utilization of land potentials. This chapter, therefore, gives only a brief outline of the methodology and offers an overview of the findings, with less detail with respect to the results published under the two original projects and more to those obtained in the IIASA Task 2 reruns. Finally, the most important policy-related conclusions are briefly reiterated.
The study supports the view that a substantial part of the ecologically available production potential is yet to be used, but at the same time draws attention to measures that seem to be indispensable if productivity is to be maintained or increased.
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Csáki, C., Harnos, Z., Rajkai, K., Vályi, I. (1988). Hungarian Agriculture: Development Potential and Environment. In: Parikh, J.K. (eds) Sustainable Development of Agriculture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-3185-0_9
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