Community-supported agriculture in the United States
Social, ecological, and economic benefits to farming
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2285683 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Paul (0000-0003-4284-8862, Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity Duke University Durham North Carolina, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 162-180 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Agrarian Change (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1471-0358 • E-ISSN: 1471-0366 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/joac.12280 |
| OpenAlex | W2810355601 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 28 |
In the United States, there is a tremendous amount of interest in community-supported agriculture (CSA) among farmers, consumers, activists, and policymakers. Despite the attention garnered by CSA and the resurgence of local agriculture, relatively few studies have examined the livelihood opportunities for farmers within local agriculture. This paper evaluates the livelihoods of CSA farmers from the farmers' perspective in the Connecticut River Valley of Massachusetts. Results indicate that although CSA farmers earn more farm income than other farms across the United States on average, they still earn far below the median national income and generally fail to earn a living wage. Despite these findings, CSA farmers stressed the importance of the broader social, ecological, and economic benefits to farming. Although these non-market benefits are a significant source of well-being from the CSA farmers' perspective, CSA has largely failed to provide adequate livelihoods for farmers to date
Agricultural economics · Agriculture · Business · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Labour economics · Livelihood · Socioeconomics · Wage · Agricultural Innovations and Practices · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
Local food systems
Benefit perceptions and their influence on the willingness to join community supported agriculture (CSA)
Overcoming divergence
The Contradictions of Pursuing Holistic Sustainability on a CSA Farm
Socially embedding the food system
Is community-supported agriculture a case of real utopia? The case of Germany
Social policy and environment in Brazil
Do Farmers Participating in Short Food Supply Chains Use Less Pesticides? Evidence from France
Transforming labour around food? the experience of community supported agriculture in Italy
Does direct farm marketing fulfill its promises? analyzing job satisfaction among direct-market farmers in Canada
Selective, reciprocal and quiet
Collective autonomy of small-scale farmers and the shared responsibility of transitions to fairer and more just food systems
Contrasting Prosumption Models
Willingness of Tea Farmers to Adopt Ecological Agriculture Techniques Based on the UTAUT Extended Model
Generating insights to improve the performance of communities supported agriculture
Trends and challenges in implementing community-supported agriculture
Becoming community economy
Unlearning in sustainability transitions
Regeneration at a distance from the state
Becoming a New Farmer
Changes in the Land
Sustainable Livelihoods and Rural Development
The Size Distribution of Farms and International Productivity Differences
Community-Supported Agriculture
Farm Subsidies and Technical Change
The Rise of Large Farms in Land Abundant Countries
Debt and Dispossession
The Theory of Peasant Co-operatives
Are local food and the local food movement taking us where we want to go? Or are we hitching our wagons to the wrong stars
The neoliberal food regime in Latin America
Food With a Farmer's Face
In Pursuit of Capitalist Agrarian Transition
Finance for Agriculture or Agriculture for Finance
Finance Capital, Food Security Narratives and Australian Agricultural Land
Sowing the Seeds of Their Own Destruction
Producing Community
Small farms, smaller plots
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2026 (6) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |