Alternative agricultural systems that emphasize ecological and community resilience provide a bridge between traditional agriculture and natural resourcemanagement. These can be referred to as agri-ecological systems and include systems such as Organic Agriculture, Biodynamics, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Permaculture, Farmers Markets and Community Gardens. This paper reports on curr...

Introduction Community-supported agriculture (CSA) offers a high potential to provide synergies between ecological, economic and social sustainability aspects. While CSA is still in niche, it has experienced rapid growth increasing interest during the last years. An overview of impacts based on quantitative empirical work missing, which needed for well-informed targeted policies funding, as wel...

Abstract Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is an alternative way of supplying food based on direct interaction between producers and consumers. As network (AFN) a form civic agriculture, it considered more sustainable production consumption compared to the conventional system. The number CSA initiatives has been increasing in last few decades worldwide parallel growing scholarly debates abo...

OBJECTIVE The objective of the present study was to explore the influence of participation in community-supported agriculture (CSA) on vegetable exposure, vegetable intake during and after the CSA season, and preference related to locally produced vegetables acquired directly from CSA growers. DESIGN Quantitative surveys were administered at three time points in two harvest seasons to four gr...

Research Brief #9 In the face of an increasingly consolidated, industrialized, and often faceless food system, many researchers and activists have looked to alternative food institutions (AFIs) as ways to improve the food system for both producers and consumers. AFIs include urban gardens, food policy councils, alternative education programs, farmers’ markets, and community supported agricultur...