Beyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-periphery

Jehlička, Petr; Ančić, Branko; Daněk, Petr; Domazet, Mladen

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.05.018

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“…While young, educated urbanites form the bulk of AFN practitioners and their share in national populations is rather small, FSP is widespread in CEE, and all classes, age cohorts and social groups participate. Some food is grown by 53% of Croatians, 40% of Czechs (Jehlička et al., 2021) and 54% of Poles (Smith & Jehlička, 2013). While the contribution of AFNs to national food consumption in terms of volume is very limited, FSP accounts for a significant share of consumption at the national level, even when households that do not produce food are included: FSP accounts for 16% of the national consumption of vegetables in Czechia (Jehlička & Daněk, 2017) and 80% of vegetable production in Russia (Visser et al., 2015).…”

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“…(2018b) and Jehlička et al. (2021) found that FSP was practised almost evenly across social groups defined in terms education, employment status or income. Ančić et al.…”

Section: Four Discourses On Fsp In Ceementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Jehlička et al. (2021) conducted two extensive representative surveys of Czech and Croatian households’ reasons for growing food. They found strikingly similar results in both countries, with healthy and fresh food clearly being the major motivation behind FSP (reported by 57% of food‐growing households in Croatia and 56% in Czechia).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Instead, they prefer to look at world societies and practices not as ranked on a ladder of development ultimately leading to Western modernity but as developing in diverse directions and in need of multiple interpretations. From this perspective, FSP deserves academic attention as a practice offering localised, well‐tried and sought‐after solutions to global social and environmental crises in particular social and geographical contexts (Jehlička, 2021; Jehlička et al., 2021). This change of interpretation has the potential to shift FSP from a peripheral location (geographically and epistemically) to the centre of mainstream debates on sustainable food systems that allow people to live well within planetary boundaries.…”

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From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self‐provisioning

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While alternative food networks (AFNs) have become the leading conceptualisation of sustainable food systems, vibrant scholarship on food self‐provisioning (FSP) in Central and Eastern Europe has remained confined to the geopolitical region it investigates. This article brings these two bodies of thought closer together in two steps. First, we trace four framings of FSP deployed over the last three decades—coping strategy, cultural practice, hobby and source of good food and reading FSP as transformative practice—to demonstrate its progressive affinity with AFNs. Second, we follow the most recent framing in highlighting the material reality of local food production as a feature shared by both FSP and AFNs. From this perspective, FSP can be understood as a more radical variant of AFNs given its more substantial environmental and social impact (FSP is more widespread and socially inclusive and less dependent on market transactions). By uncovering the epistemological underpinnings of these different framings of FSP and exploring their implications for food practices on the ground, this article draws general lessons for scholarship aiming to advance food system transformation.

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Section: Discussion: Connecting Scholarship On Fsp and Afnsmentioning

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“…(2018b) and Jehlička et al. (2021) found that FSP was practised almost evenly across social groups defined in terms education, employment status or income. Ančić et al.…”

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“…a high rate of food self-provisioning, typically not driven by economic factors (Jehlička et al, 2021;Vávra et al, 2021). Furthermore, informal food economies play a significant role (Jehlička et al, 2020;Pinto-Correia et al, 2021).…”

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On the transformative potential of Hungarian local food-buying clubs

Benedek

2023

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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This study describes the development trends of local food-buying clubs (BCs) in Hungary and analyses how this type of grassroots initiative can contribute to the sustainability transition. BC are consumer-driven organizations which aim to connect local food producers with consumers. The study also discusses how the Hungarian implementation differs from other initiatives described in the literature. The empirical analysis employs qualitative techniques, including participant observation, in-depth interviews with three organizers and two external experts, and a survey of 82 BC producers. BCs may be instrumental in facilitating the sustainability transition: on the one hand, they reach a wide range of consumers, and on the other, they are in contact with a multitude of producers, so everything is in place for their successful scaling up, with a particular focus on the maintenance of core values. BCs can thus play an instrumental role in influencing attitudes and fostering community. One of their most significant advantages is that, while they can operate independently of the growth imperatives of the dominant capitalist paradigm, they can also be understood within it. The increase in the number of grassroots initiatives has led to the formation of a meta-organization aimed at generating and sharing knowledge and the joint utilization and development of specific resources, such as information technologies. The variety of organizational forms and operating modes allows the general approach of buying clubs to be tailored to specific micro-contexts. However, there is a potential danger associated with the large proportion of volunteer work. For BCs to be successful over the long term, it is vital that they are self-sufficient in terms of everyday economic activities and that organizers are at least partially compensated for their efforts.

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Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight

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Beyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-periphery

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self‐provisioning

From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice: Changing interpretations of food self‐provisioning

On the transformative potential of Hungarian local food-buying clubs

Chinese food self-provisioning: key sustainability policy lessons hidden in plain sight

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