Who Grows Food in Russia and Eastern Europe?

Rose, Richard; Tikhomirov, Yevgeniy

doi:10.1080/10605851.1993.10640922

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“…Finally, FAO data could be underestimates due to unmeasured consumption of home-grown foods or incomplete ascertainment of trade flows. Further research is needed to verify these possibilities in Finland, but the importance of home-grown foods in some regions of the former Soviet Union has been reported in the past (Rose & Tikhomirov, 1993;Rokx et al 2000). This might partly explain why the overestimation of intakes by FAO data appears to be more moderate in most countries of the former Soviet Union, except the Russian Federation, than in countries of western Europe (except Finland).…”

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Discrepancies between ecological and individual data on fruit and vegetable consumption in fifteen countries

Pomerleau

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2003

Br J Nutr

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Although food supply statistics are commonly used in ecological studies of diet and disease, little information is available on how they compare with reported intakes of foods. The objective of the present study was to compare fruit and vegetable availability with estimates of national mean intakes derived from national food consumption surveys. Food availability statistics from the FAO were used. For each country, mean national supply, based on at least 3 years of FAO data, was calculated. National estimates of mean fruit and vegetable intakes were derived from population-based surveys from fifteen countries, gathered for the World Health Organization Global Burden of Disease Study revision for 2000. Extrapolations were made when survey data did not cover all age groups. For each country, the FAO:survey estimate ratio was calculated. This ratio ranged from 0·93 to 2·70 (median value ¼ 1·39). Although there was a tendency for FAO data to overestimate intakes (fourteen out of fifteen countries), the degree of overestimation varied greatly among the countries included in this study (5 -270 %). As food supply statistics are the only source of information on dietary patterns in most countries of the world, further information on how they reflect food intakes is needed. Obtaining detailed and valid estimates of dietary intakes in more countries around the world will be essential for such comparisons.

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Discrepancies between ecological and individual data on fruit and vegetable consumption in fifteen countries

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2003

Br J Nutr

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“…Alber and Kohler's binary conceptualisation of food self-provisioning as either a hobby, when it is practised in the context of western affluent societies, or a coping strategy of the poor, when pursued in post-socialist societies, is part of a longer tradition in the academic literature (see, for example, Rose andTikhomirov 1993 andSeeth et al 1998) in which the value and social meaning attached to food selfprovisioning depends on the social context (Jehlička and Smith 2011). Indeed Alber and Kohler are doing no more than contributing to the mainstream of western academic and policy opinion on the topic.…”

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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)

2012

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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 in one 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 selfprovisioning 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 researching and interpreting the reasons for differences in food systems. Our findings are that environmentally sustainable and healthy selfprovisioning in Czechia is motivated by a range of reasons, and practised by a significant proportion of the population across all social groups. This conclusion questions linear narratives of progress that figure 'western' practices as advanced or complete or automatically desirable, and contributes in a modest way to a decentring of narratives of progress.

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“…The same authors suggested that "non-capitalist economic practices [in Ukraine] are not some traditional, stagnant, declining, backward, marginal sphere but instead, are large, extensive and widespread" (Williams and Round 2007, p. 425), implying that the penetration of capitalism in the Ukrainian economy was in fact far weaker than much of the transition literature had been suggesting until then. Within this diverse economy context, urban coping strategies (see Pavlovskaya 2004), and especially their connections with the rural economy, have been explored more deeply in light of the importance of kitchen gardening and dacha-based subsistence agriculture (Rose and Tikhomirov 1993;Zavisca 2003;Ries 2009). While these works approach the issue from different angles, they all emphasize that such subsistence agriculture alleviated the income-related poverty of the 1990s, fostering the growth of a peculiarly postcommunist brand of social capital where the presence of kin and friend networks enabled "the connections between individuals and the sites where social capital is created and accumulated" (Round and Williams 2010, p. 188).…”

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The Post-Soviet Urban Poor and Where They Live: Khrushchev-Era Blocks, “Bad” Areas, and the Vertical Dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine

Gentile

2015

Annals of the Association of American Geographers

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Using a combination of descriptive and multivariate regression methods applied on a sample survey (n=4000) conducted in Luhansk (Ukraine) during Fall 2013, this paper investigates demographic, socio-economic, housing-specific and geographical factors that predict urban poverty in countries undergoing economic, political and institutional transition from state socialism to the market with a specific focus on Ukraine. By doing so, it contributes to the literature on poverty under and after transition, which has a strong position within economics, and to the literature on the spatial expressions of poverty after state socialism, which is particularly prominent within geography. Inspired by Amartya Sen's notion that poverty contains an irreducible absolute core, as well as a relative component, this paper makes use of a poverty index based on multiple thresholds that reflect the respondents' capabilities to meet different needs. A fascinating result of this exercise is that poverty under transition is not only predicted by such classical factors as sex, personal and parental education, and socio-occupational status, but also by housing-specific details such as location in vertical space and by classical geographical factors such as relative horizontal location and neighborhood prestige. Accordingly, this paper responds to recent calls for increased sensitivity towards the third dimension of space in contemporary urbanism, while at the same time making a substantial contribution to our hitherto incomplete knowledge of the patterns and sources of urban poverty and inequality in postsocialist transition.

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Who Grows Food in Russia and Eastern Europe?

Cited by 68 publications

References 3 publications

Discrepancies between ecological and individual data on fruit and vegetable consumption in fifteen countries

Discrepancies between ecological and individual data on fruit and vegetable consumption in fifteen countries

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)

The Post-Soviet Urban Poor and Where They Live: Khrushchev-Era Blocks, “Bad” Areas, and the Vertical Dimension in Luhansk, Ukraine

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