Food, Feed, Fuel, Fibre and Finance : Looking for Sustainability Halfway Between Traditional Organic and Industrialised Agriculture in the Czech Republic
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69236-4_7" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69236-4_7</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69236-4_7" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-69236-4_7</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Food, Feed, Fuel, Fibre and Finance : Looking for Sustainability Halfway Between Traditional Organic and Industrialised Agriculture in the Czech Republic
Original language description
In this chapter, we provide an in-depth analysis of a potentially sustainable local food system located in the Czech Republic, a small-scale organic family farm, involved in the Community Supported Agriculture scheme, with a traditional integrated farm structure combining cropland, grassland, and woodland, and a highly localised mode of both production, consumption and distribution. Both the biophysical and monetary profile of the farm is provided, and the biophysical characteristics benchmarked with pre-industrial era (1840´) and current average data on organic and conventional Czech agriculture. The results show an interesting combination of traditional systems´ characteristics (no artificial fertiliser inputs, significant human labour inputs, a significant level of closed internal material loops), and modern/industrialised features (input of fossil fuels related to mechanisation, prevalent market orientation and dependence on external, although mainly local markets). The concept of food localisation is employed to discuss the complex issues of sustainability on the farm level, and the nexus of Food-Feed-Fuel-Fibre production as discussed in the literature is extended to also include the aspect of Finance, too often neglected in current socio-metabolic studies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GP13-38994P" target="_blank" >GP13-38994P: Quest for sustainable food production: Social and financial metabolism of selected local food systems</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Book/collection name
Socio-Metabolic Perspectives on the Sustainability of Local Food Systems
ISBN
9783319692357
Number of pages of the result
37
Pages from-to
193-229
Number of pages of the book
364
Publisher name
Springer
Place of publication
Cham
UT code for WoS chapter
000447147300008