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: March 2, 2021

Quietly degrowing: Food self-provisioning in Central EuropeQuietly degrowing: Food self-provisioning in Central Europe

March 2, 2021|

A book chapter by Petr Daněk and Petr Jehlička in edited book Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices.

Why I Would Want to Live in the Village If I Was Not Interested in Cultivating the Plot? A Study of Home Gardening in Rural CzechiaWhy I Would Want to Live in the Village If I Was Not Interested in Cultivating the Plot? A Study of Home Gardening in Rural Czechia

March 2, 2021|

Paper focused on rural home gardening by Jan Vávra, Zdeňka Smutná and Vladan Hruška published in Sustainability.

Sítě pravého sdílení a sociální kapitál (True Sharing Networks and Social Capital)Sítě pravého sdílení a sociální kapitál (True Sharing Networks and Social Capital)

March 2, 2021|

Paper on sharing and social capital by Alena Rýparová in journal Sociální studia (in Czech language).

Eastern Europe and the geography of knowledge production: The case of the invisible gardenerEastern Europe and the geography of knowledge production: The case of the invisible gardener

March 2, 2021|

A new paper by Petr Jehlička in Progress in Human Geography

Reimagining Informal Food Practices: Sustainability Lessons from the European EastReimagining Informal Food Practices: Sustainability Lessons from the European East

March 2, 2021|

Presentation "Reimagining Informal Food Practices: Sustainability Lessons from the European East" at online symposium "Transitioning Cultures of Everyday Food Consumption