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 (Czech Academy of Sciences/Masaryk University), Miloslav Lapka and Roman Buchtele (both University of South Bohemia).

From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self-provisioningFrom coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self-provisioning

August 17, 2022|

Petr Daněk, Lucie Sovová, Petr Jehlička, Jan Vávra, Miloslav Lapka (2022). From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations

Beyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-peripheryBeyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-periphery

January 19, 2022|

Petr Jehlička, Branko Ančić, Petr Daněk, Mladen Domazet (2021). Beyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the

Digital food sharing: motivation and practice of sharing in Czechia (Digitální sdílení jídla: motivace a praxe sdílení v Česku)Digital food sharing: motivation and practice of sharing in Czechia (Digitální sdílení jídla: motivace a praxe sdílení v Česku)

January 19, 2022|

Alena Rýparová (2021). Digitální sdílení jídla: motivace a praxe sdílení v Česku. Geografie 126 (3): 263-287. open access The article

Introduction to the Special Issue “A Systemic Perspective on Urban Food Supply: Assessing Different Types of Urban Agriculture”Introduction to the Special Issue “A Systemic Perspective on Urban Food Supply: Assessing Different Types of Urban Agriculture”

January 19, 2022|

Martina Artmann, Kathrin Specht, Jan Vávra, Marius Rommel (2021). Introduction to the Special Issue “A Systemic Perspective on Urban Food

Quietly degrowing: food self provisioning in Central EuropeQuietly degrowing: food self provisioning in Central Europe

July 27, 2021|

Paper "Quietly degrowing: food self-provisioning in Central Europe" at the Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis

East European Food Gardens as Spaces of CareEast European Food Gardens as Spaces of Care

July 27, 2021|

Paper "East European Food Gardens as Spaces of Care" at the special session "Towards the Hopeful Anthropocene: Sustainability Experimenting from