DOI: 10.11118/978-80-7701-042-9-0054

INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO SUSTAINABLE AND RESPONSIBLE FARM MANAGEMENT

Zuzana Kapsdorferová¹, Dominika Čeryová¹, Šimon Štráma¹, Matej Čereš¹

¹ Institute of Economics and Management, Tr. A. Hlinku 2, Nitra 94976, Slovak Republic

The world‘s agriculture and food industries face a complex set of environmental, geopolitical, technological, economic and demographic-social challenges that fundamentally affect their future development. By 2050, there will be a need to provide sufficient food for nearly 9.8 billion of the planet‘s population, which puts enormous pressure on food production to increase by around 65% compared to the current situation. Demographic trends point not only to population growth but also to increasing urbanization, rising living standards and an aging population. These trends, although not new, are fundamentally changing consumer behaviour. Higher incomes, especially in urban areas, are leading to a change in consumer preferences - there is a growing demand for fast food, convenience food, street food and fast-food outlets, which save time but often require more labour and resources to process. Slovak agricultural and food processing enterprises are not without major challenges. In the coming period, they will have to face pressure to increase the protection of natural resources, promote biodiversity and significantly reduce the negative impacts of agriculture on climate change. Food producers are therefore rightly expected to implement sustainable production methods and technological practices that will not only ensure a sufficient supply of quality food but also contribute to environmental protection for future gener ations.

Klíčová slova: innovation, sustainable management, resilient agriculture, global challenges, trends

stránky: 54-56, online: 2025