What is it about?
This paper explores whether “green finance” can help make Hungary’s pig sector more sustainable. Using interviews and a structured Q-method survey with value-chain experts, it maps shared viewpoints on green loans and investments, and finds that many actors barely know these tools and doubt they will work without public support.
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Why is it important?
As climate and sustainability rules tighten, agriculture needs funding to modernise, yet green finance may not reach farms. The study is timely because it tests real-world readiness in a key livestock sector and shows the main barrier is not only money, but awareness, confidence and incentives. The results point to the need for a sector-specific green finance programme backed by policy instruments.
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What stays with me is the gap between policy ambition and on-the-ground familiarity. Even where sustainable upgrades are clearly needed, actors can feel uncertain about “green” products and the risks they imply. The Q-method approach made these viewpoints visible and comparable, which can help design programmes that farmers and financiers will actually use.
Tibor Bareith
ELTE Centre for Economic and Regional Studies Hungary
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This page is a summary of: The Uptake of Green Finance Tools in Agriculture : Results of a Q-methodology, Financial and Economic Review, January 2023, Financial and Economic Review,
DOI: 10.33893/fer.22.2.99.
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