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).

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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|

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

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,

Team meetingTeam meeting

March 9, 2020|

In January, another team meeting was held in České Budějovice and a new paper co-authored by Jan Vávra was published

Call for papersCall for papers

March 9, 2020|

Call for subsmissions to the special issue of Sustainability A Systemic Perspective on Urban Food Supply: Assessing Different Types of