Reversing the trend? Austrian and Czech gardeners between the market and tradition

DANĚK, Petr, Petr JEHLIČKA, Jan VÁVRA and Miloslav LAPKA. Reversing the trend? Austrian and Czech gardeners between the market and tradition. In 8th EUGEO Congress on the Geography of Europe. 2021.

Basic information

• Original name: Reversing the trend? Austrian and Czech gardeners between the market and tradition
• Authors: DANĚK, Petr (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Petr JEHLIČKA (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan VÁVRA (203 Czech Republic) and Miloslav LAPKA (203 Czech Republic).
• Edition: 8th EUGEO Congress on the Geography of Europe, 2021.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Conference abstract
• Field of Study: 50704 Environmental sciences
• Country of publisher: Czech Republic
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14310/21:00119039
• Organization unit: Faculty of Science
• Keywords in English: Anthropocene; food gardening; quiet resistance
• Tags: International impact

Abstract

Food self-provisioning is a widespread practice, yet, until recently, overlooked by researchers and policy makers. Conceptualising home gardening as a progressive and important part of diverse food economies, the objective of the paper is to provide understanding of demographic and socioeconomic factors and motivations behind current trends in gardening. There are indications that some gardeners deemphasise the market economy in favour of enhanced food self-provisioning to increase their households' food security. The second objective is to compare such 'new productionists' in Austria and Czechia as countries with the history of different economic systems in the second half of the 20th century.

Links

• GA19-10694S, research and development project: Name: Prostory tiché udržitelnosti: samozásobitelství a sdílení

Investor: Czech Science Foundation