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).

Informal food production and sharing webinarsInformal food production and sharing webinars

November 9, 2020|

The Spaces of Quiet Sustainability Collective prepares a series of three webinars on informal food production and sharing.

Garden and kitchen biowaste management in householdsGarden and kitchen biowaste management in households

December 1, 2020|

Jan Vávra: “Garden and kitchen biowaste management in households”. Online presentation at POWER4BIO project cross-visit in Czechia organised by University

Food self-provisioning in 21st century: overview of 15 years of research in CzechiaFood self-provisioning in 21st century: overview of 15 years of research in Czechia

November 17, 2020|

Conference presentation "Food self-provisioning in 21st century: overview of 15 years of research in Czechia" by Jan Vávra.

Grow, share or buy? PhD thesis by Lucie SovováGrow, share or buy? PhD thesis by Lucie Sovová

October 7, 2020|

On 13 October 2020 Lucie Sovová defend cum laude her PhD thesis Grow, share of buy? Understanding the diverse food

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

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