Psychologist, environmental economist

The founder of Agri Kulti. Through the domains of local-resource based regional development, short food supply chains, bioregionality and sustainable food-systems he is working on re-establishing the connection between City and Rural Areas. Inspired by research and modelling, he also builds actual enterprises. He is the co-owner of Házikó Farm Group: a living lab of business-based sustainability and community-based agro-innovation since 2014.

Biologist, ecologist

In the past ten years, he has co-worked with various nature conservation, cultural conservation and regional development organizations. With this background, he has an unique perspective of issues relating to sustainability and sustainable rural development.  Being a leading researcher at Agri Kulti from the early beginnings, he coordinates and manages several projects.

Geographer, regional developer

She has finished her Geography MSc studies at the Károly Eszterházy University in 2019, specializing in the fields of local and regional development. She participated in a broad range of local developmental projects in Northern-Hungary, working primarily with small-scale farmers and producers. Her major focus-areas are bioeconomy, local markets, local products and local resource-based regional development.

She is currently attending a Master’s Degree Program in Local Development at the University of Padova in Italy. Her main fields of interest are sustainable development, innovation, social entrepreneurship and the Third sector.

Economist

The writer of Házikó Group’s applications and tenders, furthermore the leader of the preparation for the Szécsény project. He graduated form from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and obtained his Bachelor’s Degree (BSc) from International Business. At the moment he is studying at the Corvinus University of Budapest (MSc).

Sociologist,

focusing on environmental policy, sustainability education and resilience of social-ecological systems. He is a systems thinker, using various methodologies including social network analysis and system dynanamics. He is doing his PhD on consumer attitudes in short food supply-chain solutions. In the past, he has worked in various places as researcher and consultant.