Informace o publikaci
Creative food resilience from below: household food strategies between market and garden
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| Rok publikování | 2025 |
| Druh | Další prezentace na konferencích |
| Fakulta / Pracoviště MU | |
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| Popis | Most studies of food resilience adopt a ‘macro’ perspective and consider the functioning of the food system at the national or even international scale. At the centre of these studies typically lies the capacity of the food system to withstand or adapt to the effects of external disturbances and its ability to restore the status quo. The key question is the degree of the food system’s resilience, not whether it is or is not resilient. In the context of the Global North, a resilient food system is usually associated with policy interventions aimed at enhancing resilience, these interventions are confined to the market food system and understood as a result of organised groups’ lobbying and campaigning. In this paper, we take a profoundly different approach to studying food system resilience. First, instead of the macroscale perspective, we are concerned with the food system at the micro-level perspective of individual households and their interactions with other households. Second, rather than considering the degree of resilience that arises from political activism and policy actions, we focus on everyday behaviour that is rarely motivated politically. Third, and most importantly, we do not limit our analysis to the commercial food sector but explore how households navigate the complex terrain of market-, alternative market and non-market food sources. The underlying idea is that households combining these three sources of food have a good chance of being more resilient than those that have to rely solely on the mainstream market sector. The results of the twelve focus groups we conducted with different types of households in different geographic contexts do not show the households as seeking to maintain or restore the status quo. Instead, the multiplicity of resources enables them to creatively explore food securing options, considering individual values and local conditions. We combine this qualitative data with the results of a representative survey of Czech households, determining the share of households involved in non-market food production and sharing, and the amount of food produced in these networks. The results show a significant contribution of non-market household food networks to food system resilience. |
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