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  • Agricultural land use and food safety
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    The world’s food production needs to be doubled in order to cover the need of the population by 2050 even if it exceeds 9 billion. The output of agriculture is expected to increase by 1.7% every year until 2020 (OECD, FAO 2011) which is a major decrease in comparison with the average 2.6% increase of the previous decade. At the same time, the meat, dairy, sugar and vegetable oil consumption is likely to increase by 2020 to a higher extent than so far. Due to the increasing food prices, the amount of starving people will increase and food consumption will decrease – especially in developing countries – as people will be able to buy less and only cheaper food products. Also, obesity may become a more severe problem and the inequality of the population’s health status could increase.

    One of the most important elements of adapting to global climate change is food safety; therefore, it is especially important to breed new biological bases and to introduce production systems which contribute to adapting to changed circumstances.

  • Possibilities of conceptualization and operacioanlizaton of the safety culture and safety climate in the international safety management researches
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    In this paper the author summarized the definitions and operationalisations of the safety culture and safety climate concepts. He analyzed the Hungarian and international safety
    management scientific literatures. He also analyzed the scientific definitions and summarised the common and different elements. The author emphasizes that the many different scientific safety culture researches had been created good possibilities to find the common surfaces. Based on the international safety culture operationalisation practices the author identified a composition of safety culture dimensions which could be a possible basis for the Hungarian safety culture researches. These dimensions are:
    ???? values (individual and organizational) from this result scale of values,
    ???? attitudes (individual and organizational),
    ???? motivations,
    ???? perceptions,
    ???? social status and estimation of the occupational safety and health,
    ???? position and estimation of the occupational safety and health communication,
    ???? position and estimation of the occupational safety and health tranings,
    ???? measuring of confidence, optimism, fatalism and anomic characteristics,
    ???? good practices and behavior,
    ???? influence and estimation of the work,
    ???? risk perception and safety level perception,
    ???? contentment.with occupational safety and health.