Community Supported Agriculture, Food Consumption Patterns, and Member Commitment

Goland, Carol

doi:10.1525/cag.2002.24.1.14

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“…A small number of interventions provided financial support for CSA participation to low-income and underserved households and found that participants experienced many of the same benefits as those reported in other studies (33,39) . Participants' motivations for joining CSA were similar to those of members in previous studies with a few notable exceptions (17,19,29,(31)(32)(33)37,(40)(41)(42)(43)(44) . The majority of CSA members in previous studies reported a desire to support local farmers as a reason for joining CSA (16,31,37) whereas this was not a frequently cited reason for joining in the present study.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 60%

A novel dietary improvement strategy: examining the potential impact of community-supported agriculture membership

Vasquez

Sherwood

Larson

et al. 2016

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To investigate the use of community-supported agriculture (CSA) as an employer-based health promotion intervention. Design: Quasi-experimental study using a convenience sample of employees at three employers. Setting: Participants and controls from three Minnesota employers completed baseline and follow-up health assessments and surveys about their experiences with CSA. Subjects: A total of 324 participants purchased a CSA share and were eligible for study inclusion. Study participants were matched by age, sex, employer and occupation to a non-randomized control group of individuals who did not purchase a CSA share but completed health assessments during the same time frame as the study participants. Results: The majority of participants were female, white, middle-aged and highly educated. The most common reason for purchasing a CSA share was a desire for fresh food, and the majority of participants were satisfied with their experience. Participants reported a significant increase in the number of vegetables present in the household and the frequency of family meals. The frequency of eating out decreased significantly, especially at fast-food restaurants. Participants also reported an increase in the amount and variety of produce consumed. However, health assessment data did not show significant changes in dietary intake, health status or BMI. Conclusions: CSA participation was associated with improvement in some aspects of the household environment and dietary behaviours. Further research is needed to determine whether employer-based CSA interventions may also lead to improvements in dietary intake and health.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 60%

A novel dietary improvement strategy: examining the potential impact of community-supported agriculture membership

Vasquez

Sherwood

Larson

et al. 2016

Public Health Nutr.

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“…Often-described effects are learning about cooking, eating and meal planning, also to avoid food waste (Andreatta et al, 2008;J. N. Cohen et al, 2012;Gorland, 2002;Hayden and Buck, 2012;Lutz and Schachinger, 2013). In addition, we find only few other learning fields, e.g.…”

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confidence: 71%

“…Studies on CSA primarily explore increased consumption of fruit and vegetables (J. N. Minaker et al, 2014;Wilkins et al, 2015), changes in cooking practices or the frequency of eating out (Andreatta et al, 2008;Curtis et al, 2013), and learning about seasonal crops (Wilkins et al, 2015). Some studies were unable to confirm the hypothesis that CSA participation leads to healthier food consumption habits (Gorland, 2002;Quandt et al, 2013). No comparable studies exist, as far as we know, on food coops or self-harvest gardens.…”

Section: Consumers' Learning In Afnsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effects of consumer-producer interactions in alternative food networks on consumers’ learning about food and agriculture

Opitz

Specht

Piorr

et al. 2017

Moravian Geographical Reports

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In the recent literature, Alternative Food Networks (AFN) topics of consumer-producer interactions (CPI). The present study aims (1) to develop an analytical framework relying on six CPI domains and (2) to apply it to investigate CPI effects on consumers' learning about and appreciation of agriculture. We conducted 26 guided interviews with consumers and producers of the three most frequent AFN types in Germany: community-supported agriculture (CSA), food coops, and self-harvest gardens. The results show that AFN participation enhances consumers' learning about food (seasonality, cooking/nutrition, housekeeping aspects) and agricultural production (farmers' perspectives, cultivation). Our results show that consumer's learning is influenced by certain CPI domains

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“…Research on CSA programs reveals the asymmetry of the urban consumer and farmer relationship. Carol Goland found a 50 % annual turnover of CSA membership, which was largely due to expectations not being met during fall months (Goland 2002). This places financial burdens on farmers such that CSA farmers in Marcia Ostrom's research (2008) 'lacked health care or funds for retirement and did not believe that they earned an adequate return…Most were not able to set their share price to cover their costs of production but could only charge what the market would bear' (Brown andMiller 2008: 1299).…”

Section: Mutual Respect and Historical Divisions Between Rural And Urmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Agrarian Imaginary in Urban Life: Cultivating Virtues and Vices Through a Conflicted History

Mayes

2013

J Agric Environ Ethics

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This paper explores the influence and use of agrarian thought on collective understandings of food practices as sources of ethical and communal value in urban contexts. A primary proponent of agrarian thought that this paper engages is Paul Thompson and his exceptional book, The Agrarian Vision. Thompson aims to use agrarian ideals of agriculture and communal life to rethink current issues of sustainability and environmental ethics. However, Thompson perceives the current cultural mood as hostile to agrarian virtue. There are two related claims of this paper. The first argues that contrary to Thompson's perception of hostility, agrarian thought is popularly and commercially mobilized among urban populations. To establish this claim I extend Charles Taylor's notion of a social imaginary and suggest that urban agriculture can be theorized as an agrarian imaginary. Entwined with the first claim is the second, that proponents selectively use agrarian history to overemphasis a narrative of virtue while ignoring or marginalizing historical practices of agrarian violence, exclusion and dispossession. I do not discount or deny the significance of agrarian virtue. By situating agrarian thought within a clearer virtue ethics framework and acknowledging potential manifestation of agrarian vice, I suggest that the idea of agrarian virtue is strengthened.

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Community Supported Agriculture, Food Consumption Patterns, and Member Commitment

Cited by 62 publications

References 18 publications

A novel dietary improvement strategy: examining the potential impact of community-supported agriculture membership

A novel dietary improvement strategy: examining the potential impact of community-supported agriculture membership

Effects of consumer-producer interactions in alternative food networks on consumers’ learning about food and agriculture

An Agrarian Imaginary in Urban Life: Cultivating Virtues and Vices Through a Conflicted History

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