Élet és tudomány: az agrárközgazdasági kutatás időszerű kérdései az MTA újjáválasztott Agrárközgazdasági Bizottságának nézőpontjából

The aim of the study is twofold: on the one hand, to analyze the main challenges facing international and domestic agricultural economic research in the second decade of the 21st century, and on the other hand, to examine how, using the methodology of modern scientometrics, the place and role of Hungarian agricultural economic research can be assessed in the light of international comparison. The author basically relies on the analysis of literature databases, the examination of international and domestic sources on the topic, and his own experiences in his analyses. It can be stated that international agricultural economic research must seek answers to significant, new questions, because the analysis of the relationship between population growth, climate change, and nutrition and health status and its economic burdens raises numerous unresolved problems of global significance. In recent decades, Hungarian agricultural economic research has always been able to analyze the rapidly changing reality in a versatile way, thereby helping economic policy decision-making, the development of enterprises, and supporting professional training. The increasingly important task of the coming decades is to be even more able to present domestic scientific results on the international stage, increasingly integrating into the mainstream of agricultural economic research. This requires – among many other things – a conscious expansion of the applied set of methods and a comprehensive development of the research workforce.