Informal food production and sharing webinars

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).

Informal food production and sharing webinars

November 9, 2020|

The Spaces of Quiet Sustainability Collective prepared a series of three webinars on informal food production and sharing. The talks in English (approx. 20-25 minutes) were followed by the discussion with participants. The presentations were recorded and are available online along with the slides.

Webinar 1 – Wednesday 2 December 2020, 1:30pm GMT (2:30pm CET)
Lucie Sovová (Wageningen University)
Searching for sustainable food provisioning: invisible places, ordinary practices and unusual suspects
For more information about the speaker and topic see the flyer. The video and presentation are available.

Webinar 2 – Wednesday 16 December 2020, 1:30pm GMT (2:30pm CET)
Petr Jehlička (Czech Academy of Sciences)
Outside the axis of knowledge production: Exploring the representation of East European informal food practices in Western academia
The event discusses how ‘reading’ East European informal food practices from the ‘West’ is instructive for understanding how certain knowledge does or does not become theory.
For more information about the speaker and the topic see the flyer. The video and presentation are available.

Webinar 3 – Wednesday 20 January 2021, 1:30pm GMT (2:30pm CET)
Petr Daněk (Masaryk University)
Spaces of Central European food self provisioning and sharing
The talk discusses spaces of informal food self-provisioning and sharing with special attention to care and diverse economies. Based on 2020 survey results from Austria and Czechia.
For more information about the speaker and the topic see flyer. The video and presentation are available.