Call for subsmissions to the special issue of Sustainability A Systemic Perspective on Urban Food Supply: Assessing Different Types of Urban Agriculture is open until 31 May 2020. With queries regarding this call please contact the co-editor Jan Vávra at jvavra@ef.jcu.cz.

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In January, another team meeting was held in České Budějovice and a new paper co-authored by Jan Vávra was published in Journal of Cleaner Production: The role of edible cities supporting sustainability transformation – A conceptual multi-dimensional framework tested on a case study in Germany (open access).
In February, Jan Vávra participated in the Czech Parliament discussion about proposal of the gardening law.

Two team members participated in seminars in December. Miloslav Lapka included gardeners into his consideration of social networks as a clash of two cultures at Qualitative methods seminar V. held in Prague (in Czech). Petr Jehlička gave talk at OpenSpace Seminar: Post-Brexit Sustainable Food Systems at Open University, UK.

New issue of Canadian Journal of Development Studies has been published in December. Contains Special section Post-socialist smallholders: silence, resistance and alternatives co-edited by Petr Jehlička. The issue includes open access editorial and paper authored by team members built on previous research project. Accessible here.

Petr Jehlička gave a talk Degrowth lessons from the European East: self-provisioning, sharing and the resilient food system at the Green Academy Winter Seminar “Degrowth Kaleidoscope – Real-Existing Utopias in Action” organised by the Zagreb’s Institute for Polical Ecology at Plitvice Lakes, Croatia (8 – 10 November 2019).

Lucie Sovová received a honorable distinction from the Storm-van der Chijs fund at Wageningen University for her research on food self-provisioning. Read more.

Alena Rýparová presented paper Ethnography of sharing initiatives in Brno at the conference “Ethnographies of Collaborative Economi(es)” in October 2019 in Edinburgh, UK. See paper and presentation in Publications and media.

Second project meeting of all team members held in October 2019 in Brno.

Jan Vávra co-chaired the urban agriculture symposium and presented the project’s first outputs at the 10th IALE world congress Nature and society facing the Anthropocene in Milano in July 2019.

Petr Jehlička gave keynote address at IAMO Forum IAMO “Small Farms in Transition: How to Stimulate Inclusive Growth” in Halle (Germany) in June 2019 and was interviewed by most popular Estonian daily paper Postimees, see more here.

The first meeting of an almost complete project team held in May 2019 in Albertov, Prague chosen as the most accessible place for team members from Brno, České Budějovice and Milton Keynes.