RESOURCE
Project researching water- and waste-related practices in Czech and Dutch households. Funded by Czech Academy of Sciences and coordinated by FoodRes team member Petr Jehlička.

CESCAME
Centre for the Study of Social Social Change and Material Environment analysing global problems through research in Central and Eastern Europe. Czech Academy of Sciences funded project at Institute of Sociology, CAS.

CULTIVATE
EU funded project addresses the problems of unsustainable food systems by helping cities navigate towards resilient and sustainable food sharing. The research and applications are spread over 9 European cities.

SYRI
National Institute for Research on Socioeconomic Impacts of Diseases and Systemic Risks (SYRI) is EU funded project bringing together experts from Czech Academy of Sciences, Charles University and Masaryk University. One of the research topics are Socioeconomic inequalities in health which cover food and food self-provisioning aspects.

Economic alternatives in Czechia
Website of the project funded by the Czech Science Foundation (No. 14-33094S) based at the Faculty of Social Studies of Masaryk University and led by Nadia Johanisova. Members of the project team Spaces of quiet sustainability participated in the Economic alternatives in Czechia project which explored Czech informal economic practices including food self-provisioning and sharing. Website only in Czech.

Between home and nature: urban political ecology of allotment gardening in post-socialist city and its urban impacts
Research project led by Petr Gibas (Institute of Sociology, Czech Academy of Sciences) focused on alltoment sites in Prague.

SHARECITY
An ERC project using a collaborative and trans-disciplinary approach to assess the practice and sustainability potential of city-based food sharing economies.

Sharing & Caring
COST Action aiming to develop a European network of actors focusing on the development of collaborative economy models and platforms and on social and technological implications of the collaborative economy through a practice-focused approach.

Global Informality Project
Online resource global collection of invisible, yet powerful informal practices.

Czech Union of Allotment and Leisure Gardenes
Website of the Union of mostly allotment gardeners with over 170,000 members in Czechia.

Urban Food Futures
A blog in English and French on urban gardening, food distribution and consumption aimed at dissemination of academic knowledge to the general public.
Emma Burnett’s article about home gardening as a form of resilience (based on a paper by the research team members) here.

Daněk, P., Sovová, L., Jehlička, P., Vávra, J., Lapka, M. (2022). From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self-provisioning. Sociologia Ruralis, 62(3), 651-671. here

Vávra, J., Smutná, Z., Hruška, V. (2021). Why I would want to live in the village if I was not interested in cultivating the plot? Home gardening in rural Czechia. Sustainability, 13(2), 706. here

Sovová, L., Jehlička, P., Daněk, P. (2021): Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens. Sustainability, 13(9), 5193. here

Jehlička, P., Ančić, B., Daněk, P., Domazet, M. (2021): Beyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-periphery. Geoforum, 126, 150-158. here

Jehlička, P. (2021) Eastern Europe and the geography of knowledge production: The case of the invisible gardener. Progress in Human Geography, 45(5), 1218-1236. here

Artmann, M., Sartison, K., Vávra, J. (2020). The role of edible cities supporting sustainability transformation – A conceptual multi-dimensional framework tested on a case study in Germany. Journal of Cleaner Production, 255, 120220. here

Jehlička, P., Grīviņš, M., Visser, O., Balázs, B. (2020). Thinking food like an East European: A critical reflection on the framing of food systems. Journal of Rural Studies, 76, 286-295. here

Sovová, L., Veen, E. J. (2020). Neither Poor nor Cool: Practising Food Self-Provisioning in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands and Czechia. Sustainability, 12(12), 5134. here

Visser, O., Dorondel, S., Jehlička, P., Spoor, M. (2019) Post-socialist smallholders: silence, resistance and alternatives. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 40(4), 499-510. here

Other selected publications of the project team members. For new FoodRes publications see Publications and media.

Jehlička, P., Ma, H., Kostelecký, T., Smith, J. (2024). Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight. Agriculture and Human Values, 41, 647-659. here

Smutná, Z., Vávra, J., Duží, B. (2024). An insight into market and non-market alternative food networks in Czechia during Covid-19 and beyond. Frontiers in Nutrition, 11, 1327308. here

European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, Group of Chief Scientific Advisors (2023). Towards sustainable food consumption: promoting healthy, affordable and sustainable food consumption choices. Brussels: Publications Office of the European Union. here

Kolářová, M. (2023). Permaculture and back-to-the-land migration: Pursuing self-sufficiency in Czech rural areas. Sociologia Ruralis, 63(4), 865-885. here

Berkhout, E., Sovová, L., Sonneveld, A. (2023). The Role of Urban–Rural Connections in Building Food System Resilience. Sustainability, 15(3), 1818. here

McGreevy, S., Rupprecht, C., Niles, D.,..Jehlička, P.,…Tachikawa, M. (2022). Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world. Nature Sustainability, 5(12), 1011–1017. here

Cima., O., Sovová, L. (2022). The end of postsocialism (as we knew it): Diverse economies and the East. Progress in Human Geography, 46(6), 1369-1390. here

Millard, J., Sturla, A., Smutná, Z., Duží, B., Jansen, M., Vávra, J. (2022). European food systems in a regional perspective: a comparative study of the effect of Covid-19 on households and city-region food systems. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 6, 844170. here

Artmann, M., Specht, K., Vávra, Jan, Rommel, M. (2021). Introduction to the Special Issue “A Systemic Perspective on Urban Food Supply: Assessing Different Types of Urban Agriculture”. Sustainability, 13(7), 3798. here

Jehlička, P., Daněk, P., Vávra, J. (2019). A change engaging resilience: Home gardening, food sharing and everyday resistance. Canadian Journal of Development Studies, 40(4), 511-527. here

Sovová, L., Krylová, R. (2019). The countryside in the city? Rural-urban dynamics in Brno, Czech Republic. Moravian Geographical Reports, 27(2), 108-121. here

Fendrychová, L., Jehlička, P. (2018). Revealing the hidden geography of alternative food networks: The travelling concept of farmers’ markets. Geoforum, 95, 1-10. here

Vávra, J., Megyesi, B., Duží, B., Craig, T., Klufová, R., Lapka, M., Cudlínová, E. (2018). Food self-provisioning in Europe: An exploration of socio-demographic factors in five regions. Rural Sociology, 83(2), 431-461. here

Vávra, J., Daněk, P., Jehlička, P. (2018). What is the contribution of food self-provisioning towards environmental sustainability? A case study of active gardeners. Journal of Cleaner Production, 185, 1015-1023. here

Tóth, A., Duží, B., Vávra, J., Supuka, J., Bihuňová, M., Halajová, D., Martinát, S., Nováková, E. (2018). Changing patterns of allotment gardening in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Nature and Culture, 13(1), 162-188. here

de Hoop, E., Jehlička, P. (2017). Reluctant pioneers in the European periphery? Environmental activism, food consumption and “growing your own”. Local Environment, 22(7), 809-824. here

Jehlička, P., Daněk, P. (2017). Rendering the actually existing sharing economy visible: Home-grown food and the pleasure of sharing. Sociolgia Ruralis, 57(3), 274-296. here

Sovová, L. (2015). Self-provisioning, sustainability and environmental consciousness in Brno allotment gardens. Sociální Studia, 12(3), 11-26. here

Jehlička, P., Kostelecký, T., Smith, J. (2013). Food self-provisioning in Czechia: Beyond coping strategy of the poor: A response to Alber and Kohler’s ‘Informal food production in the enlarged European Union’ (2008). Social Indicators Research, 111(1), 219-234. here

Smith, J., Kostelecký, T., Jehlička, P. (2013). Quietly does it: Questioning assumptions about class, sustainability and consumption. Geoforum, 67, 223-232. here

Smith, J., Jehlička, P. (2013). Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe’s productive gardeners. Journal of Rural Studies, 32, 148-157. here

Jehlička, P., Smith, J. (2011). An unsustainable state: Contrasting food practices and state policies in the Czech Republic. Geoforum, 42(3), 362-372. here