Imre KOVÁCH, Institute of Sociology, Centre of Social Sciences, Hungary
Boldizsar MEGYESI, Institute of Sociology, Centre of Social Sciences, Hungary
The aim of this paper is to present rural regeneration in Hungary in the context of sustainable development. The research was conducted in the framework of the EU H20 Ruralization, in which we conducted 48 tape recordings and a further 30 interviews with the use of artificial intelligence in agriculture. Ruralization interviews were conducted with successors and new entrants into agriculture.
Agricultural regeneration In Hungary, too, is one of the key issues in rural development, as in most European countries. The proportion of farmers aged 15-39 is only 4.2%, which is in line with the European average. The first chapter presents the main trends in post-socialist agricultural re-structurization in the 1990s and after EU accession (2004), the main feature of which is a. decrease in the numbers of farm units and strong concentration of land use and land property.
The third chapter is a summary presentation of the international and Hungarian literature on regeneration, which seeks in particular to answer the question of what the role of the transmission of farmer traditions may have played in spite of the forty-five-year socialist era. Another crucial point of generational renewal, on-farm transmission is the understanding what is the role of educational levels in the process of access to land. The topics of the fourth chapter are the method of research and the locations of field research, In the fifth chapter, we assume about factors influencing generational renewal - family, access to land, and education. In the fifth chapter, we summarize the results on the factors influencing generational renewal - family, access to land, education. In the final debate, we hypothesize that generational renewal may open the door to a transition to sustainability, but policy and education should play a much stronger role in promoting all this.
Mots clés : regeneration|ruralization|sustainability|access to land |education
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