Food Self-Provisioning in The Czech Republic - A Comparison of Suburban and Peripheral Regions of Rural South Moravia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/euco-2021-0030" target="_blank" >https://www.sciendo.com/article/10.2478/euco-2021-0030</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/euco-2021-0030" target="_blank" >10.2478/euco-2021-0030</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Food Self-Provisioning in The Czech Republic - A Comparison of Suburban and Peripheral Regions of Rural South Moravia

Original language description

The Czech Republic ranks among the countries with a strong tradition of home food self-provisioning. In this article, we focused our attention specifically to the traditional and frequently neglected phenomenon of rural self-provisioning while newly introducing a data-based analysis of the phenomenon in two areas, i.e., suburbs and peripheries of the South Moravian region. Unlike the research carried out in the CR or EU to date, our survey aims exclusively at the analysis of households with access to land, which allow a more detailed scrutiny of growing a wide range of commodities, the attitudes to it and its perspectives. The results of the field study carried out in 178 rural households in two types of South Moravian regions (suburban and peripheral) from 2017 show the regional differences in food self-provisioning. They also contribute to a better understanding of a phenomenon whose variability within a rural territory is quite known a little. Even though the suburban and peripheral regions have very comparable natural conditions and opportunities of growing crops (a similar type of estate, nearly the same size of the gardens surveyed), we can observe rather remarkable differences, especially in the extent of the areas being farmed and in the scale of breeding domesticated animals (work demanding activities). Compared to that, only negligible differences were found in growing commodities demanding less work (fruit and tomato growing). The identified differences in attitudes to self-provisioning in the observed regions (depending on the varied types of population in the regions) allow for analysing the perspectives of particular self-provisioning activities both in South Moravia and the CR on the whole.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50401 - Sociology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Countryside

ISSN

1803-8417

e-ISSN

1803-8417

Volume of the periodical

13

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

20

Pages from-to

516-535

UT code for WoS article

000704345100002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85117374593