Szõke Jlia

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Publications - 8

Bridging the funding gap: advancing sustainable food security in West Africa to achieve SDG 2

Szõke Jlia Zoltán Ködmön

Publication Name: Discover Sustainability

Publication Date: 2025-12-01

Volume: 6

Issue: 1

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

As the global population exceeds 8 billion, pressure on food systems is growing, especially in developing regions where funding gaps hinder progress toward Sustainable Development Goal 2. This study investigates sustainable food security in West Africa, focusing on the role of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB). A quantitative, secondary research approach is applied, combining a literature review with time series data. Three indicators are examined, undernourishment (2000–2022), food insecurity (2014–2022), and AfDB-funded projects (1970–2023), with a detailed focus on the overlapping period of 2015–2022. Findings reveal significant disparities across countries. From 2015 to 2022, undernourishment decreased in only seven of fifteen countries, while food insecurity rose in nearly all. In 2022, 17% of the population was undernourished, and 61% lived in moderate or severe food insecurity. Although Nigeria recorded a relatively low undernourishment rate, it had the highest absolute number of affected individuals due to its population size. Since 1970, AfDB has financed 339 food security-related projects in the region, with notable growth during the MDG and SDG periods. Ghana and Mali received the most projects, while Côte d’Ivoire and Nigeria attracted the largest funding volumes. Per capita distribution reveals significant disparities, with Cape Verde and Gambia receiving proportionally more support. Over time, project focus evolved from rural development to climate resilience and value chain enhancement, showing the change in development priorities. The study contributes to understanding how long-term, targeted investments by development finance institutions influence food security outcomes in West Africa.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1007/s43621-025-01335-1

Corporate Social Responsibility from the Aspect of Sustainability—Evidence from the Hungarian HR Sector

Dóra Lakosy Szõke Jlia

Publication Name: Administrative Sciences

Publication Date: 2025-05-01

Volume: 15

Issue: 5

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been long examined since every company affects its natural and social environments. This study presents research on CSR practices and their relationship with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the aim to find out about CSR from the aspect of sustainability in practice. The study reviews the theoretical framework for sustainability and CSR, and by conducting qualitative research focusing on the CSR activities of the Hungarian HR service industry, it presents the relation of these CSR practices to sustainability. This regional focus combined with the industry-specific focus provides the novelty of the study. Results show that the Hungarian HR sector has made a significant contribution to sustainable development in the areas of equality and inclusiveness in the responsible workplace and environmental/ecological responsibility. It was also found that the CSR practices of the examined HR companies greatly overlap, although differences were identified. It concludes that HR companies operating in Hungary can contribute to sustainable development and that the examined companies’ CSR practices are aligned with the SDGs, since sustainability is an integral part of their CSR strategy, though in various degrees.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3390/admsci15050159

Sustainability of water security in Burkina Faso—a review

Szõke Jlia Zoltán Ködmön

Publication Name: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Publication Date: 2025-01-01

Volume: Unknown

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

Access to safe and clean water (Sustainable Development Goal 6 of the United Nations) is a fundamental human right and the most basic human need. However, 2.2 billion people still lacked safely managed drinking water, including 703 million without a basic water service in 2022, according to the United Nations. The current research examined the current state of water security of Burkina Faso which is one of the most vulnerable in the field of water security. The current study identifies a significant research gap in the field of sustainable water security by adopting a security-focused perspective, complementing the existing emphasis on water-related development. The present study shows that despite the numbers of water-related development projects—financed by the African Development Bank—Burkina Faso is the only country in West Africa where the proportion of the population with access to basic drinking water services has decreased (by 8%) between 2000 and 2022. Moreover, 40% of the country’s regions had fewer people with access to basic drinking water services. The research also found that Burkina Faso is the most affected by water-related conflicts in West and Central Africa where the regions of the country with the highest number of water-related conflicts are precisely those with the least access to drinking water and the least number of implemented water security projects. Thus, water security strategies must prioritize physical security, since armed conflict can easily reverse years of progress and investment.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1007/s10098-025-03198-6

Chatbot as a Corporate Communication Tool: Best Practice of a Hungarian HR Services Company

Dóra Lakosy Szõke Jlia

Publication Name: Journal of Ecohumanism

Publication Date: 2024-08-31

Volume: 3

Issue: 6

Page Range: 849-858

Description:

The advent of cutting-edge technologies has changed the way humans communicate. Corporate communication also has to face the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities stemming from the evolution of infocommunication technologies. The paper aims to present the best practice of a Hungarian certified company providing full HR services regarding the use of a chatbot software application as a corporate communication tool. The company applies its award-winning chatbot to communicate with its temporary workforce in five different languages. The paper is a single-case study based on secondary and primary research. The empirical research is carried out by means of an in-depth interview with the examined company’s representative to get details about the successful application of the chatbot software. The results reveal that the company was able to successfully integrate a rule-based chatbot into its corporate communications. The use of the chatbot has brought a number of benefits, e.g. time-and cost-effectiveness, satisfaction from both the temporary workforce and the internal staff. The paper concludes that even the most basic type of chatbot software can be applied effectively if the users are informed and well-prepared in advance, meanwhile the knowledge base of the chatbot software is appropriately determined and constantly updated.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.62754/joe.v3i6.4055

Military Assistance to Ukraine and Its Significance in the Russo-Ukrainian War

Kolos Kusica Szõke Jlia

Publication Name: Social Sciences

Publication Date: 2023-05-01

Volume: 12

Issue: 5

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

The interest of social sciences in the military dates back ages, and currently, special attention is being paid to Russia’s war in Ukraine. The present paper also follows this research trend, and it intends to analyze both the tactical and operational levels of war by investigating how the military assistance provided by Western states and international organizations to Ukraine is influencing the course of the Russo-Ukrainian war. Subsequently, the paper studies the military assistance in all three phases of the war, beginning from the invasion of Crimea, through the Donbas offensive, to the phase of Ukrainian counter-offensives. The research method used by this paper was to review and synthesize the existing but scarce and sometimes disinformative literature. The findings suggest that Western military aid began cautiously by providing only non-lethal, defensive weapons, but it was of crucial importance in the second phase of the war by guaranteeing heavy weaponry. The paper concludes that Western military assistance, especially from the United States, United Kingdom, Poland, and Germany, has had a significant role in the Russo-Ukrainian war, without which Ukrainian forces may not have persisted to now.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3390/socsci12050294

Sustainable Development in the Sahel Region

Kata D. Jankovits Szõke Jlia

Publication Name: Chemical Engineering Transactions

Publication Date: 2023-01-01

Volume: 107

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: 223-228

Description:

Scientists from various fields have long examined the factors contributing to sustainable development in Africa. The paper investigates the topic of sustainable development focusing on a very special part of Africa, the Sahel region, which is an ecoclimatic and biogeographic region of Africa facing many challenges. Consequently, the secondary research to be presented in this paper aims to review some projects and actions taken by various organizations, like the United Nations and the African Union, that stimulate sustainable development in the Sahel region. Accordingly, it focuses on a few of those projects and actions, which, on the one hand, enable sustainable agriculture, the reduction of malnutrition and food insecurity, and water usage combined with latrine construction, and which, on the other hand, enhance natural resource management and increasing resilience to climate change. The paper concludes with some remarks regarding the efficacy of these projects and actions from the viewpoint of sustainability, and finds that even though these projects and actions are of significance, there is still a long road ahead to reach sustainable development in the Sahel region.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.3303/CET23107038

Virtual proximity in distance education - The usage of a three-dimensional software

Petra Kecskés Szõke Jlia

Publication Name: 8th IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications Coginfocom 2017 Proceedings

Publication Date: 2017-07-02

Volume: 2018-January

Issue: Unknown

Page Range: Unknown

Description:

From time to time new forms of communication appear in our everyday life due to the constant development of ICT. Therefore, we demonstrate how a three-dimensional visualization software can be used in higher education for students of distance education.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1109/CogInfoCom.2017.8268291

The business behaviour of representatives of small-and medium-sized enterprises in cross-cultural interaction situations

Szõke Jlia

Publication Name: Tarsadalomkutatas

Publication Date: 2014-01-01

Volume: 32

Issue: 2

Page Range: 162-175

Description:

In the present paper based on the database of our own research from 2012 we examine with the help of some dimensions of national culture how the business behaviour of representatives of small-and medium-sized enterprises (henceforth SMEs) can be characterised in cross-cultural interaction situations. Previous pieces of research (e.g. Hofstede 1980, Bartlett-Ghoshal 1990) have already verifi ed that the norms, habits and behaviour patterns learnt as part of national culture strongly influence the behaviour of the members of the society therefore the business behaviour of employees as well, however, according to our hypothesis the business behaviour of representatives of SMEs is not unifi ed in cross-cultural interaction situations but can be subdivided into different categories. One novelty of our paper is that our research was concentrated on a geographical area since the sample included only representatives of Hungarian SMEs from the three counties of West-Transdanubian region with the condition that they participate in cross-cultural business relations with Austrian partner. The other novelty of the research is that the business behaviour of the respondent representatives was analysed by using some national culture dimensions of three researchers (Hofstede 1980, Trompenaars 1995, Hall 1975 and 1990), but based on the fi ndings the culture dimensions of a fourth researcher, Gesteland (2005) were outlined from the data. In our paper we fi rst introduce the theoretical background of the research, then we draw up its methodology, and fi nally as a result of our research we present the business behaviour of the representatives of SMEs from the examined region in cross-cultural interaction situations and its characteristics.

Open Access: Yes

DOI: 10.1556/Tarskut.32.2014.2.5