ABSTRACT

Keeping in mind the research questions, it seems to be important to pay attention to the micro-level of the individual actor and to carve out respondents' motivations to commit themselves to sustainability issues in the respective city, be it in the field of urban food production or elsewhere. The items on Nussbaum's list of ten basic capabilities constituting human life are not distinct but interconnected, mutually influencing each other. Sometimes the legal framework can be an additional motivating factor to become committed to sustainability issues, as in the case of the respondent owning a piece of land in a city for which the land development plan only foresees agricultural use, inducing him to rent allotments to families for food production. Even if according to the quantitative data, self-sufficiency in food production is not a major motive in any region, the qualitative data points to an increasing importance of this motive in the South.