Challenges and opportunities of the beekeeping family farms measured by the idea model

Abstract

Since composing the report of Brundtland (november 1987) several sustainability models and theories have
been published which analyse the economic branches in detail from ecological, economic and social
perspectives. More methodes analyse the agriculture as a system but it shows a lack of micro-level analyse of
farms and modelling of their sustainability. The french IDEA method was a response for this demand which
means Farm Sustainability Indicators (Indicateurs de Durabilité des Exploitations Agricoles).
After the detailed examination of the foreign researches and the applied methodes, our goal was to proof the
applicatibility of the model in Hunagrian relationships. For this objective we chose a small sector, the apiary,
where we could collect exact data about the methodology of the management, transability and the realization.
The results could answer the question if this model is adoptable in the research methodes of the Hungarian farms
and how sustainable the Hungarian apiaries are. It can show where the outstanding results and bottlenecks are.