MAP Position Paper (Hungary) - Alternative Rural futures (Foresight)

This position paper is the results of the work carried out by the Hungarian AKIS Multi-Actor Platform, which continued on reflecting about the future of its rural areas. The document outlines the results of a SHERPA foresight exercise. The goal of this exercise was to inform and assist the decision-making process through the creation of a dialogue on the future of rural areas among civil societies, researchers, and policy-makers around locally relevant matters. This was done by applying a back-casting process: starting from the desirable future identified throughout the previous work done on the LTVRA in 2020, and going backwards to assess the goals and targets that would need to be achieved, as well as identifying possible pathways (i.e. interventions, instruments, processes and actors responsible for taking action) to be acted upon