20.500.12556/DKUM-86732 Home gardening and food security concerns during the COVID-19 pandemic At times of crisis, home gardening has often been sought out as a potential solution for threats to food security and as a measure to increase socio-psychological effects, such as public sense of self-efficacy, trust in the government and care for one’s wellbeing. The objective of this study was to investigate if home gardening increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring/summer of 2020 and to provide socio-psychological insights into the explanatory factors of such an increase. An explanatory theoretical model of home gardening was proposed and tested to analyse whether home gardening is correlated to food security concerns, and if so, to what extent. A nonrepresentative survey was conducted in five European countries (Slovenia, Norway, Estonia, Switzerland, and Iceland) using snowball sampling via social media networks, reaching 1144 participants. The results showed the pandemic did prove to be an important psychological push towards home gardening prompted by food security concerns. Measured as loose as introducing at least one new gardening activity during COVID-19, this study found an approximately 10% increase in home gardening during the first wave of COVID-19 in the sample population, which was skewed towards educated, female, middle-class Europeans. food security home gardening COVID-19 food security concerns wellbeing behavioural change protection motivation theory prehranska varnost domače vrtnarjenje COVID-19 skrbi glede prehranske varnosti dobro počutje sprememba vedenja motivacija true false true MDPI Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Znanstveno delo 2024-01-16 09:29:52 2024-01-16 09:56:54 2024-01-17 03:17:51 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2022 0 0 Str. 1-21 Št. 9, št. članka 778 Letn. 8 2022 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 2022-06-30 2022-08-21 2022-08-27 633/635.018 119407363 10.3390/horticulturae8090778 2311-7524 Home_gardening_and_food_security_concerns_Turnsek_2022.pdf Home_gardening_and_food_security_concerns_Turnsek_2022.pdf 1 5EA10B4740E5BF3D1D3FFE5010357A58 8db67108cc2088af2f83943c962b8dd195196d53c99bdefacab8cbfacc69e4fa fbb2beb8-b44c-11ee-8692-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=175285 https://doi.org/10.3390/horticulturae8090778 0 0cefa232-b44d-11ee-8692-00155d000105 https://dk.um.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=175286 Fakulteta za turizem Fakulteta za kmetijstvo in biosistemske vede 0 0 0