Theme of the Conference

The theme of the Conference is: „The Agri-Food Value Chain: Challenges for Natural Resources Management and Society“

Come to share your views on the most critical issues confronting the world today by joining the international scientific conference  which will provide a venue for policy makers, top managers, academics and researches that deal with economic and management issues related to specific issues within the agri-food chains and natural resources management.

The conference accepts papers on the following tracks: 

• Food Security, Trade and Agricultural Policy
  Track chairs:
• prof. h.c. doc. Ing. Mária Kadlečíková, CSc., SUA Nitra
• doc. Ing. Ľuboš Smutka, PhD, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, CR

• Bioeconomy, Resource Management and Sustainable Development
  Track chairs:
• Dr. Takácsné Prof. dr. habil György Katalin, Károly Róbert College, Hungary
• Doc. Ing. Natália Turčeková, PhD, SUA Nitra
• Ing. Zuzana Lajdová, PhD., SUA Nitra

• The Agri-Food Value Chain Analysis: Economics, Management and Logistics
  Track chairs:
• Dr. Jakub Piecuch, Agricultural University of Cracow, Poland
• Prof. Murat Yercan, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
• Ing. Veronika Hrdá, PhD., SUA Nitra
  

• Entrepreneurship and Corporate Social Responsibility
  Track chairs:
• Prof. Ajay Kumar Singh, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
• Dr. Andre Mostert, University of East London, United Kingdom
• Prof. Ing. Iveta Ubrežiová, CSc., SUA Nitra
  

• Finance and Current Issues
  Track chairs:
• Doc. Miroslav Plevný, PhD, West Bohemian university, CR
• Dr. Amitabh Gupta, University of Delhi, New Delhi India
• Ing. Marián Tóth, PhD, SUA Nitra
  

• Accounting and Information Systems
  Track chairs:
• Ing. Renáta Krajčírová, PhD, SUA Nitra
• Doc. Olena Oliynyk, NULES of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
  

• New Dimensions in Rural Development and Sustainable Agriculture - in cooperation with the Slovak Sociological Society´s Section on Rural and Agricultural Sociology
  Track chairs:
• Prof. Jonas Caplikas, Aleksandras Stulginskis University, Lithuania
• Dr. Henrietta Nagy, Szent Istvan University Gödöllő, Hungary
• Doc. Danka Moravčíková, PhD, SUA Nitra
  

• Agricultural University Education, Quality Assurance and Humanity Studies 
  Track chairs:
• Dr. John Russin, Louisiana State University, USA
• Prof. Viktor Smelik, St. Petersburg State Agrarian University, Russia
• doc. RNDr. Dana Országhová, CSc., SUA Nitra
• PaedDr. Timea Šebeň-Zaťková, PhD, SUA Nitra
  

• Information and Communication Technologies (website)
  Track chairs:
• prof. Ing. Ivan Vrana, DrSc. Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague
• Doc. Ing. Klara Hennyeyova, PhD., SUA Nitra
• RNDr. Darina Tóthová, PhD., SUA Nitra
  
• International workshop Food Sciences & Consumer Studies: Bridging Traditions with Novelties 
• Food Marketing and Consumer Studies
  Track chairs:
  • Dr. Hotniar Siringoringo, Gunadarma university, Indonesia
  • Prof. Marija Cejrak, University of Zagreb, Croatia
  • Prof. Savino Santovito, Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro, Italy
  • prof. Ing. Ľudmila Nagyová, PhD., SUA Nitra
• Market Research, New Technologies and Interdisciplinary Approaches (Including presentations of newly established Consumer studies classroom)
  Track chairs:
  • Dr. Barbara Borusiak, Poznan University of Economics, Poland
  • Ing. Martin Souček, PhD, Mendel University, CR
  • Ing. Jan Tlučhor, PhD, West Bohemian University, Plzen, CR

• VUA session: Studies on Agri-Food Value Chain in Visegrad and Eastern Partnership Regions 
• Dr.h.c. prof. dr. hab. Janusz Zmija, PhD, Agricultural University in Cracow, Poland
• Dr. Tatiana Litvinenko, Belgorod State Agrarian University, Russia
• Dr. Róbert Magda, Szent István University in Gödöllő, Hungary
  
  
• Agricultural Markets and Institutions – Organised Session by the Association of Agricultural Economists in Slovakia 
  Track chairs:
• prof. Ing. Ján Pokrivčák, PhD., SAU Nitra
• doc. Ing. Ľubica Bartová, CSc., SAU Nitra
• doc. Ing. Peter Fandel, CSc.,  SAU Nitra
• doc. Ing. Miroslava Rajčániová, PhD., SAU Nitra

• Doctoral Session "Young science"
  Track chairs:
• Sviridova Olga, C.E.S., Orel State Agrarian University, Russian Federation
• Ing. Mária Urbánová, PhD., SUA Nitra
• Ing. Marcela Hallová, PhD. SUA Nitra
  
  
• The efficiency of agriculture in context of sustainable development, social and environmental system of management - The society of agricultural experts at SUA in Nitra 
  Track chairs:
  
• doc. Ing. Peter Serenčéš, PhD., SUA Nitra
• Ing. Zuzana Čierna, PhD., SUA Nitra