Food Self-Provisioning in Czechia: Beyond Coping Strategy of the Poor: A Response to Alber and Kohler?s Informal Food Production in the Enlarged European Union? (2008)

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Result on the web
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-012-0001-4" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-012-0001-4</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-012-0001-4" target="_blank" >10.1007/s11205-012-0001-4</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Food Self-Provisioning in Czechia: Beyond Coping Strategy of the Poor: A Response to Alber and Kohler?s Informal Food Production in the Enlarged European Union? (2008)
Original language description
Food systems are of increasing interest in both research and policy communities. Surveys of post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) show high rates of food self-provisioning. These practices have been explained in terms of being coping strategies of the poor?. Alber and Kohler?s Informal Food Production in the Enlarged European Union? (2008) offers a prominent account of this argument, supported by quantitative data. However, evidence from our case study of food self-provisioning inone CEE state?Czechia?contradicts their findings. Newly commissioned survey data, as well as a fresh look at the data they were working from, demonstrate that rather than being motivated by poverty, these widespread practices serve as a hobby and as a way of accessing healthy food?. With food self-provisioning becoming an increasingly prominent subject in advanced industrial countries, in terms of both health and environmental policy, we propose that much greater care is taken in resear
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
AO - Sociology, demography
OECD FORD branch
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Project
<a href="/en/project/GAP404%2F10%2F0521" target="_blank" >GAP404/10/0521: Environmental Values, Beliefs and Behavior in the Czech Republic in Historical and Cross-National Perspective</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2013
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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