Any human activity is unthinkable without food. Food and water are the ultimate drivers of human civilization from the ancient Sumerian civilization until today. Unfortunately, today, regardless of the huge growth in food production, one of the biggest challenges of today’s turbulent world is ensuring enough healthy food, which ensures not only the necessary amounts of energy and nutrients, but also to ensure the health of consumers. However, food also has numerous economic, cultural, sociological, and even religious functions or characteristics. This is the reason why production, processing, logistics, distribution, and final preparation of food are extremely complex processes, because food also ensures consumer satisfaction with its taste, appearance, colour, freshness, smell, but also with its cultural meaning. This book was created because of many years of work and research by the authors of the Hungarian University of Agriculture and Natural Sciences Campus in Kaposvár and the Križevci College of Agriculture, and it would certainly not have been created without the work on a joint project entitled as “Multilevel Education System for Agile Agri-food Chains” (acronym EDUAGRI). The purpose of the book, according to its content and concept of the chapters, is to be a common textbook for students of both related institutions, and at the same time a useful manual in which the knowledge acquired by all active stakeholders in agricultural and food chains is systematized. In explanation of certain facts and processes, both a theoretical and a practical approach were used, with real examples and their explanation. The final success of the authors will be judged by the readers themselves, for whom the book is intended(!). However, it should be noted that this book is one of the few that deals with the entire management of agri-food chains, particularly in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and is definitely the only one that is published as a trilingual edition.

• Chapter 1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0059
• Chapter 2 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0060
• Chapter 3 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0061
• Chapter 4 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0062
• Chapter 5 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0063
• Chapter 6 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0064
• Chapter 7 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0065
• Chapter 8 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0066
• Chapter 9 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0067
• Chapter 10 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0068
• Chapter 11 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0069
• Chapter 12 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0070
• Chapter 13 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0071
• Chapter 14 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0072
• Chapter 15 DOI: https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0073
• Complete book (Hungarian language version) DOI https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0042
• Complete book (Croatian language version) DOI https://doi.org/10.54597/mate.0074