Semi-structured interviewes with farmers and stakeholders

Semi-structured interviewes were made with farmers and stakeholders on field in order to gather an overall view about the effects of different land use types and methods to the socio-economic development of sodic wetlands, to collect management-models and to give possible guidance to local farmers, land use managers, decision makers in order to facilitate a harmonized land use management both economically an ecologically at the sodic lake area of the Kiskunság.

Socio-economic context, and people’s livelihood, the main element of it has been closely connected to their surrounding. Living and managing land use on sodic wetlands was always a challenge. In order to recognize appropriate traditional land use types, to eliminate wrong, inadequate and most of all nature damaging methods which hinder sustainable socio-economic development at the same time, a complex sustainability study of socio-economical impact of different management types and methods of sodic wetlands will be prepared, mainly based on the interviews.