“For my health and for my friends”: exploring motivation, sharing, environmentalism, resilience and class structure of food self-provisioning

Ančić, Branko and Domazet, Mladen and Župarić-Iljić, Drago (2019) “For my health and for my friends”: exploring motivation, sharing, environmentalism, resilience and class structure of food self-provisioning. Geoforum, 106. pp. 68-77. ISSN 0016-7185 (Print), 1872-9398 (Online)

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2019.07.018

Abstract

IN ENGLISH: This article aims to supplement the growing understanding of the specificities of food self-provisioning (FSP) practice in Eastern Europe with deeper understanding of the class structure and broader environmentalist motivations of the self-reported practitioners. FSP and sharing of ‘garden produce’ is a long-term socioeconomic phenomenon in Croatia but so far there has been no research on the whole population in regard to FSP. We explore how widespread FSP in Croatia is, based on a survey of a nationally representative sample (N = 1000), within a broader social stratification project. We further explore the class structure of FSP practitioners and compare it to their reported motivations for engaging with the practice, and their pro-environmental behaviour, resilience and personal flourishing. Previous research in CEE has shown that FSP is characteristic of between 35% and 60% of national populations (Smith and Jehlička, 2013), whereas our findings show that a little over 50% of respondents claim that they have a garden, field or orchard, they use to produce food for themselves and part of their social network. As a practice it is more situated in smaller settlements and rural areas, but it is not a principally rural phenomenon. Slim majority of people involved in FSP in Croatia are identified as working class, however, FSP is not a coping strategy focused on the poor and low-income households in Croatia and food self-provisioners report higher level of personal wellbeing, more pro-environmental behaviour and higher level of self-perceived resilience. --------------- IN CROATIAN: Člankom se nastoji upotpuniti sve veći broj istraživanja specifičnosti prakse proizvodnje hrane za vlastite potrebe u istočnoj Europi dubljim razumijevanjem klasne strukture pojedinaca koji primjenjuju ovu praksu, kao i njihove šire motivacije usmjerene na zaštitu okoliša. Proizvodnja hrane za vlastite potrebe i dijeljenje 'vrtnih proizvoda' dugogodišnji je socioekonomski fenomen u Hrvatskoj, no do sada nije bilo istraživanja ove prakse na cijeloj populaciji. Proučavamo rasprostranjenost proizvodnje hrane za vlastite potrebe u Hrvatskoj temeljem ispitivanja na nacionalno reprezentativnom uzorku (N=1000) u sklopu projekta kojim se šire istražuje društvena stratifikacija. Provodimo daljnje istraživanje klasne strukture pojedinaca koji proizvode hranu za vlastite potrebe i uspoređujemo je s njihovom iskazanom motivacijom za bavljenje tom praksom, njihovim pro-ekološkim ponašanjem, te s otpornošću i osobnom dobrobiti ovih pojedinaca. Ranija istraživanja u srednjoj i istočnoj Europi pokazuju da se proizvodnjom hrane za vlastite potrebe bavi između 35% i 60% nacionalne populacije (Smith i Jehlička, 2013.), dok naši nalazi upućuju da nešto preko 50% ispitanika ima vrt, njivu ili voćnjak, koji koriste za proizvodnju hrane za sebe i za dio svojih prijatelja i poznanika. Ova praksa češća je u manjim mjestima i ruralnim područjima, ali nije u prvom redu ruralni fenomen. Blaga većina pojedinaca koji proizvode hranu za vlastite potrebe pripada radničkoj klasi, no ova praksa nije strategija preživljavanja siromašnih kućanstava i onih niskih prihoda u Hrvatskoj. Jednako tako, proizvođači hrane za vlastite potrebe izražavaju veću razinu osobne dobrobiti, veću sklonost pro-ekološkom ponašanju i višu razinu samoprocijenjene otpornosti.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: Language: English. - Title in Croatian: „Za moje zdravlje i za moje prijatelje“: istraživanje motivacije, dijeljenja, ekološke osviještenosti, otpornosti i klasne strukture kod proizvodnje hrane za vlastite potrebe.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Food self-provisioning, food sharing, pro-environmental behaviour, social class, wellbeing, resilience, Croatia (proizvodnja hrane za vlastite potrebe, dijeljenje hrane, pro-ekološko ponašanje, društvena klasa, dobrobit, otpornost, Hrvatska)
Subjects: G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
H Social Sciences > HM Sociology
Depositing User: Karolina
Date Deposited: 02 Sep 2019 10:53
Last Modified: 15 May 2024 09:48
URI: http://idiprints.knjiznica.idi.hr/id/eprint/843

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