Between market and alternatives: household food resilience in uncertain times is a three-year research project (2024-2026) aiming at the understanding of the households’ participation in conventional and informal food systems. These includes shopping, food self-provisioning, foraging, barter, gifts and other ways of obtaining food. The research focuses on the methods how food is being obtained and shared by the households and investigates everyday decision making along with people’s values and motivations. The results will provide novel insights into the households’ food resilience.

The project is funded by the Czech Science Foundation’s grant No. 24-12568S and is based at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University and Institute of Sociology of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

The research team are Petr Daněk, Lucie Sovová (both Masaryk University), Jan Vávra, Marta Kolářová and Petr Jehlička (all of them Institute of Sociology of CAS).

Projekt Mezi trhem a alternativami: potravinová odolnost domácností v nejisté době je tříletý výzkumný projekt (2024-2026), zabývající se zapojením domácností do formálních i neformálních potravinových systémů, což zahrnuje nakupování, samozásobitelství, sběr, výměnu, dary a další způsoby získávání potravin. Kromě způsobů obstarávání a sdílení potravin, se výzkum zaměřuje na každodenní rozhodování domácností a s tím spojené hodnoty a motivace. Výsledky výzkumu nabídnou nový vhled do potravinové odolnosti domácností.

Projekt je financován Grantovou agenturou ČR (č. 24-12568S) a realizován na Přírodovědecké fakultě Masarykovy univerzity a v Sociologickém ústavu AV ČR, v. v. i.

Projektový tým pracuje ve složení Petr Daněk a Lucie Sovová (oba Masarykova univerzita), Jan Vávra, Marta Kolářová a Petr Jehlička (všichni Sociologický ústav AV ČR).

Day: May 10, 2020

Beyond the coping strategy: Central European informal food economies as future-oriented and transformation-enabling practicesBeyond the coping strategy: Central European informal food economies as future-oriented and transformation-enabling practices

May 10, 2020|

Petr Daněk and Petr Jehlička Presentation at the international workshop From Economic to Political Informality: Exploring the Link between Shadow

Urban gardens as a source of self-grown food in Czech towns and citiesUrban gardens as a source of self-grown food in Czech towns and cities

May 10, 2020|

Jan Vávra, Petr Daněk, Petr Jehlička, Miloslav Lapka Presentation at 10th world IALE congress Nature and society facing the Anthropocene

East European informal food production and distribution: socially resilient, economically diverse and quietly sustainableEast European informal food production and distribution: socially resilient, economically diverse and quietly sustainable

May 10, 2020|

Petr Jehlička Keynote address at IAMO Forum 2019 “Small Farms in Transition: How to Stimulate Inclusive Growth?” (26–28 June 2019,

An invisible garden extending in front of our eyesAn invisible garden extending in front of our eyes

May 10, 2020|

Petr Jehlička’s interview on food self-provisioning and quiet sustainability for the Estonian newspaper Postimees (8 June 2019), in Estonian