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 measure increase socio-psychological effects, such public sense self-efficacy, trust in the government care one’s wellbeing. The objective this study was investigate if increased during COVID-19 pandemic spring/summer 2020 provide insights into explanatory factors an increase. An theoretical model proposed tested analyse whether is correlated concerns, so, what extent. A non-representative survey conducted five European countries (Slovenia, Norway, Estonia, Switzerland, Iceland) using snowball sampling via social media networks, reaching 1144 participants. results showed did prove be important psychological push towards prompted by concerns. Measured loose introducing at least one new activity COVID-19, found approximately 10% first wave sample population, which skewed educated, female, middle-class Europeans.