The adoption of a local food concept in post-communist context: Farm shops in Czechia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2015.1125942" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2015.1125942</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00291951.2015.1125942" target="_blank" >10.1080/00291951.2015.1125942</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The adoption of a local food concept in post-communist context: Farm shops in Czechia

Original language description

The article examines an alternative food network evolution in the post-communist context in Czechia in general and farm shop developments in particular. The study is based on semistructured interviews with farm shopkeepers operating in Czechia. The results revealed that the development of the farm shop network was significantly shaped by the communist past of the country. While consumers' demand for quality food contributed to the initiation of developments in local food movements such as farm shops in Czechia, the inconvenient structure of the farming sector, comprising a limited number of small-scale farmers, hindered the development. Although the farm shops usually operate as middlemen by reselling goods produced by a range of farmers, farm shopkeepers expressed significant awareness of the sustainability principles of the local food concept and dissociated themselves from unethical practices of large retailers. Nevertheless, the author finds that the local concept is used in a flexible manner to meet customers' demands. Despite obstacles faced by farmers when developing their own farm shops, there is significant potential in 'Czech-type' farm shops operating solely as retailers. However, the author concludes that the threat of the diversion from the sustainability principles of the local food concept should not be neglected.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

DE - Earth magnetism, geodesy, geography

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F12%2F0470" target="_blank" >GAP404/12/0470: Geography of alternative food networks and sustainable consumption</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift

ISSN

0029-1951

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

70

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

NO - NORWAY

Number of pages

17

Pages from-to

24-40

UT code for WoS article

000372729300003

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84961249355