Farming alone? What’s up with the “C” in community supported agriculture

Pole, Antoinette; Gray, Margaret

doi:10.1007/s10460-012-9391-9

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“…In line with previous studies [12,[44][45][46][47], our findings indicate that, on average, CSA members are younger, are more educated, and have higher incomes than do non-members. Furthermore, consistent with [34], our results highlight that CSA members spend more on grocery shopping and have more active lifestyles than do non-members.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…A consistent theme within the CSA literature is that women constitute the majority of CSA members [5,12,[48][49][50][51]. However, in line with the results of a recent Food Demand Survey, which indicated that people who shopped at farmers markets were more likely to be male [52], males represent a larger percentage of CSA members in our sample (Table 2).…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Other than farmers markets, CSA has become one of the most widely used direct marketing strategies over the last twenty years to satisfy the increased demand for sustainable production and consumption [6][7][8]. The number of U.S. farms that market their products through CSA has increased from an estimated 500 farms in 1996 to more than 12,000 farms in 2012-approximately 0.6% of U.S. farms [9][10][11][12][13]. Under a CSA arrangement, consumers purchase "shares" of a farm's expected yield before the planting period and obtain a portion of the produce later during the harvesting season [14][15][16].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, a plethora of studies has examined the effect and influence of several factors on consumers' CSA participation and CSA membership satisfaction [12,22,[26][27][28]. The majority of these studies indicate that CSA members are primarily female, middle aged, with higher education and income [5,22,29].…”

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Factors Affecting Current and Future CSA Participation

2017

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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of the widely used direct marketing strategies for small-and midsized farmers. CSA programs are an important option for sustainable production and consumption. It helps growers generate income (improve financial security) and consumers obtain fresh local foods. Sustaining and growing CSA participation is critical in order to continue enjoying these benefits. We used a national online survey in conjunction with discrete choice models to investigate the impact of demographic characteristics, lifestyle preferences, and different information outlets on the probability that a consumer is or will become a CSA member. The results indicate that the factors affecting current and future CSA participation differ substantially. While none of the demographic characteristics has a significant impact on current CSA participation, some of them significantly affect the probability that a consumer will become a CSA member in the future. Lifestyle preferences have a significant impact on current and future CSA participation. Although none of the information outlets examined affect current CSA participation, word-of-mouth and online sources significantly influence the probability that a consumer will join a CSA program in the future. These findings may have important implications for policy makers' and CSA farm managers' efforts to sustain future CSA development.

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“…There is certainly evidence of this in the research, particularly in the UK case studies. Yet, as Pole and Gray (2013) and Si et al (2015) point out, ''community'' can be hard to locate, even for those who do participate in aspects of farming and gardening. This is most clearly the case in China, with many of those involved in the farms feeling isolated from the consumers, most of whom do no more than reserve their produce on-line.…”

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The spaces and times of community farming

Liu

Gilchrist

Taylor³

et al. 2016

Agric Hum Values

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This paper uses a multiple case study approach to researching people's everyday lives and experiences of six community farms and gardens in diverse settings in China and England. We argue that collective understandings of community are bound up in everyday action in particular spaces and times. Successful community farms and gardens are those that are able to provide suitable spaces and times for these actions so that their members can enjoy multiple benefit streams. These benefits are largely universal: in very different situations in both England and China, CSA members make strong connections with the land, the farmers and other members, even in cases where they rarely visit the farms and gardens. This suggests that community farming and gardening initiatives possess multi-dimensional transformational potential. Not only do they offer a buffer against industrialised and remote food systems, but they also represent therapeutic landscapes valued by those who have experienced time spent at or in connection with them. Our findings indicate that-regardless of location or cultural context-these benefits are durable, so that people who have been engaged in multiple activities at a community farm or garden continue to enjoy these benefits long after most of their engagement has ceased.

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Can members’ WeChat engagement affect relational outcomes in community‐supported agriculture? Empirical evidence from China

Tan

Chen

2018

Agribusiness

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Members' offline engagement is commonly believed to affect the producer-member relationship in communitysupported agriculture, however, little research focuses on engagement in the online context. Using qualitative data of 24 members and quantitative data of 279 members from China, this study uses a sequential exploratory mixedmethod design to explore the impact of members' WeChat engagement on relational outcomes. The findings indicate that WeChat engagement positively affects four relational outcomes: Service satisfaction, word of mouth, social bonds, and commitment. In addition, those four relational outcomes are not equally influenced by WeChat engagement. The greatest impact is on commitment, while the lowest is on service satisfaction. Furthermore, multigroup analysis results suggest that gender moderates the relationship between WeChat engagement and commitment.

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Farming alone? What’s up with the “C” in community supported agriculture

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Cited by 100 publications

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Factors Affecting Current and Future CSA Participation

Factors Affecting Current and Future CSA Participation

The spaces and times of community farming

Can members’ WeChat engagement affect relational outcomes in community‐supported agriculture? Empirical evidence from China

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