With the majority of the world's population now living in cities and estimations of the consequences of climate change threatening global vegetable production, it seems city's vegetable self-sufficiency has never been more relevant. In the context of sustainable development new solutions for urban problems are being searched for, but already existing practices, such as vegetable self-sufficiency, that have many positive effects on individuals, society and evironment, and are therefore already contributing to city's sustainability, are often overlooked. This diploma thesis, based on literature analysis, tries to present the basic characteristics of vegetable self-sufficiency in cities and specifically in the City Municipality of Ljubljana (MOL), later both in more detail in the context of sustainable development. Based on our survey, completed by 156 individuals that in different ways grow their own vegetables in MOL, we analyze their habits, attitudes and values and assess the effects vegetable self-sufficiency has on the individual, society and the environment in MOL. Primarily, we were interested in the main reasons for the vegetable self-sufficiency practice and the factors that would illustrate the practice of vegetable self-sufficiency as the practice of »quiet sustainability« in MOL. A part of the paper focuses on evaluating the effects of the epidemic on the extent and type of vegetable growing.
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