Spaces of quiet sustainability: self-provisioning and sharing is a three-year research project (2019-2021) aiming at the understanding of food self-provisioning and the sharing of food and other things. The research is focused on sharing networks around household production and participants’ values and motivations, spatiality of these networks and material flows, on economic and environmental effects of these processes and trends in self-provisioning.

The project is funded by the Czech Science Foundation’s grant No. 19-10694S and is based at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno and Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice.

The research team are Petr Daněk (principal investigator, Masaryk University), Jan Vávra (co-investigator, University of South Bohemia) and team members Alena Rýparová a Lucie Sovová (both Masaryk University), Petr Jehlička (The Open University/Masaryk University), Miloslav Lapka and Roman Buchtele (both University of South Bohemia).

Food during the Covid-19 pandemic researchFood during the Covid-19 pandemic research

June 15, 2020|

Our team member Jan Vávra participates in the international research Our relationship with food during the Covid-19 pandemic. Led by

Neither Poor nor Cool: Practising Food Self-Provisioning in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands and CzechiaNeither Poor nor Cool: Practising Food Self-Provisioning in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands and Czechia

June 24, 2020|

Sovová, L. & Veen, E. (2020). Neither Poor nor Cool: Practising Food Self-Provisioning in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands and

Urban gardeners as localised prosumers within circular economy: Case studies of home, allotment and community gardeningUrban gardeners as localised prosumers within circular economy: Case studies of home, allotment and community gardening

June 5, 2020|

Jan Vávra, Miloslav Lapka, Lucie Sovová, Petr Daněk, Petr Jehlička, Jan Macháč, Lenka DubováPaper presented at virtual Dresden Nexus Conference,

Sketches of food, agriculture, gardening and sustainability in the times of Covid-19Sketches of food, agriculture, gardening and sustainability in the times of Covid-19

May 10, 2020|

Jan Vávra Essay in the Times of Covid-19 series publishing “flash reflections” on temporal and rhythmic shifts in various social

Thinking food like an East European: A critical reflection on the framing of food systemsThinking food like an East European: A critical reflection on the framing of food systems

May 10, 2020|

Petr Jehlička, Miķelis Grīviņš, Oane Visser, Bálint Balázs Journal of Rural Studies. (in press). Open access until 9 July, otherwise

The role of edible cities supporting sustainability transformation – A conceptual multi-dimensional framework tested on a case study in GermanyThe role of edible cities supporting sustainability transformation – A conceptual multi-dimensional framework tested on a case study in Germany

May 10, 2020|

Martina Artmann, Katharina Sartison, Jan Vávra Journal of Cleaner Production 255: 120220. link