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Farmer's reasons to engage in organic agriculture
Kučerová, Michaela ; Bartoš, Michael (advisor) ; Zagata, Lukáš (referee)
The master thesis deals with farmer's reasons to engage in organic agriculture. The theoretical part is devoted to the topic of organic agriculture, its development in the Czech Republic and abroad, organic farming legislation and subsidy policies in the Czech Republic. Described methodology is a part of master thesis. The empirical part provides the readers with the presentation of eight individual organic farms in the regions of Hana and Beskids. On the grounds of empirical survey carried out through in-depth semi-structured interviews, the thesis reveals inner motivations that stimulate farmer's commitment to work in an environment-friendly way. Then, detailed description and interpretation of the codes resulting from open coding of the interviews are presented.
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Organic Farming through the eyes of farmers
Zagata, Lukáš ; Kabele, Jiří (advisor) ; Lošťák, Michal (referee)
Current popularity of organic farming is partly based on idealized picture about farming practices and its (organic) products. The goal of this thesis is to find out how the participating farmers look at their own practices, and by this to offer a comparison to what extent the subjective viewpoints of farmers correspond with notions and positive expectation of official policy actors and public. Empirical study uses a less known research tool called Q methodology, which is focused on identification of ideal-type approaches of engaged actors. Data was gathered with the use of semistandardized interviews with Czech organic farmers. Analysis pointed out three factors, which were interpreted as three existing perspectives among organic farmers. The content of each one formed a basis for their names - organic farming (1) as a way of life, (2) as a livelihood and (3) as a production of food of alternative quality. Each viewpoint puts emphasis on different elements and in a specific way forms (constructs) basic aim of organic farming. The identified classification contributes to a theoretical discussion about a nature of current organic agriculture and its position in contemporary modern society. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Social meanings of local food and its consumption
Loučímová, Barbora ; Zagata, Lukáš (advisor) ; Jiří, Jiří (referee)
Farmers markets, system of bio-boxes, community supported agriculture, yard sale and stores, is a summary of alternative forms of selling local food which can be found on our market. On the other side the newly established sections or shelves in supermarkets are
starting to provide and include local food in their product range only after consumer pressure.
Local food does not fall into one particular definition. Each of us under this designation can specified to what extent or distance of locality means to him. These foods have several advantages over conventional foods. Among the advantages is included growing in the Czech Republic, the absence of imports from distant countries, harvesting food at the time of ripening and more.
Labeling, labeling method itself and the importance of brands is described in chapter political viewpoint.
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Impact of the Regional Labels on Regional Develepment in Vysočina Region
Chalupová, Martina ; Lošťák, Michal (advisor) ; Zagata, Lukáš (referee)
The dissertation thesis is focused on regional food labelling schemes in Vysočina Region and their impact on regional development, from the consumers perspective. Chosen economic and social aspects were analysed: the quality and content of the information on the regional labels in media, preference of regional food among inhabitants of Vysočina Region, their regional food preferences and awareness of regional labels. The research was conducted in two phases. Content analysis of media aimed to analyse media presence and occurance of the characteristics attached to each regional label: VYSOČINA Regional Product and Regional Food Vysočina Region. The other research had quantitative design and aimed to determine level of awareness of the labels among Vysočina inhabitants. To test the ability of respondents from Vysočina Region to recognise and differentiate the labels, the author created non existent label From Our Region Vysočina. Media analysis of the Vysočina regional labels revealed that media may help build awareness about the labels as they have been informing about them continuously, but they emphasise that these labels signal above all quality and origin, diminishing special connection with the region and its tradition. The research of regional labels awareness showed that respondents do not pay attention to the labels as almost 24% of 819 respondents claimed they had already seen non-existent label. This could be a viewed as a sign of the food labels inflation with their rising number and very low differentiation it is impossible for the conumers to differentiate them and also that people do not pay attention to them. Further analysis confirmed that respondents preferences and views on the regional labels from the Vysočina districts differ.
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Food and its social context (a case of the pupils in one elementary school)
Hogenová, Hana ; Lošťák, Michal (advisor) ; Zagata, Lukáš (referee)
Food and its social context in connection with children is studied more and more often today. It seems that family characteristics influence childrens eating habits. Those habits affect other parts of childrens social life as integrating into their peer class group
as well. Therefore the goal of this paper was to find out how eating habits of 25 children from 2nd grade of a local elementary school in Litvinov are affected by their family background and how those children are successful in integrating with their classmates. Direct observation of children during their school collective eating time (snack and lunch) was the chosen method. Family eating habits were established by using Likert scale items. There was also determined family socioeconomic status for each child and every pupil was marked on the scale of popularity.
Some differences in childrens eating habits were successfully connected with socioeconomic status of families. Pupils from families with higher socioeconomic status think more often that eating together during celebration is very important. Their snacks are also richer and fathers or mothers partners from those families participate in preparing food for children. In contrast there was discovered weaker concern for quality of childrens eating in families with lower socioeconomic status. Although there is a clear distinction between eating strategies of popular and unpopular children, it is not possible to make clear connection with socioeconomic status of families. The popularity among children
in 2nd grade is rather connected with gender of pupils.
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Seniors in the eyes of the young generation members
Zemková, Petra ; Zagata, Lukáš (advisor) ; Kučerová, Eva (referee)
The thesis deals with the young generation´s view of the old age period. The theoretical part of work is devoted to the issues of ageing and the old age. The changes associated with the ageing process are described there and the demographic trends of ageing population and the situation in the Czech Republic are also mentioned. Emphasis is given to the specification, formation and transformation of generations over a period of time. In the chapter called ´Generation gap relationships´, points of view of both the young and the elderly are described, together with the ageism phenomenon and mutual solidarity. The following chapters of the theoretical part are devoted to generation gap conflicts and communication. Qualitative research, aiming to discover how young generation members view the old age and elderly people, is carried out in the practical part of thesis. The qualitative research deals with the four main topics: elderly people definition through the eyes of young, young generation´s characterization of the old age, the status of elderly people in the Czech society viewed by the young generation and mutual generation gap relationships in the family frame. Qualitative research was carried out by means of semi-structured interviews with informers belonging to the young generation. In the practical part of thesis, relationships between the young and the elderly generation are detaily scrutinized.
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Youth In Cooperatives in Georgia
Šrůtková, Petra ; Mazancová, Jana (advisor) ; Zagata, Lukáš (referee)
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the productivity of agriculture sector started decreasing despite of the agricultural potential of Georgia, and the subsequent civil war caused a lot of people to emigrate. There has been a long-term decreasing trend in the rural population and agricultural production. That is why The European Neighbourhood Programme for Agricultural and Rural Development in Georgia (ENPARD) with the main objectives to increase food production and reduce rural poverty in Georgia through agri-cooperatives, was established and 11 cooperatives was set up in the Imereti by the time of our research. The aim of this research was to analyse the involvement of youth in cooperatives in Imereti region in Georgia and to identify some of the factors related to the agricultural cooperatives and the rural-urban migration. The data for this qualitative research was collected through semi-structured questionnaires with young members of cooperatives (N=11) and semi-structured interviews with members of the Board (N=5) and key informants (N=2) in July 2015. The Likert-scale and the Ranking score method were used for some questions in the questionnaire. We found out that the enterprise of a cooperative could be attractive for youth and women who want to engage in agriculture and it could possibly restrict rural-urban migration. Our respondents who were already members of a cooperative seemed quite satisfied according to their statements in the coops. We also indentified two main factors that had an influence on their staying in rural areas and working in agriculture (family, family farming tradition) and the prime impulse and motivation for joining the cooperative.
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