The Moral Economy Is a Double-edged Sword
Explaining Farmers' Earnings and Self-exploitation in Community-Supported Agriculture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4859282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ryan E Galt (0000-0002-0243-5636, Department of Human Ecology University of California, Davis 1309 Hart Hall One Shields Avenue Davis CA 95616, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 89 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 341-365 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ecge.12015 |
| OpenAlex | W2126863792 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 109 |
| References cited | 50 |
In this articleIdevelop a political economic understanding of community-supported agriculture (CSA). I first develop the relevance of three concepts-economic rents, self-exploitation, and social embeddedness-toCSAand then introduce a framework that relatesCSAfarmers' earnings to the average rate of profit, economic rents, and self-exploitation. I then examine qualitative and quantitative data from a study of 54CSAsin California's Central Valley and surrounding foothills to explain the wide range of farmers' earnings in relation to the characteristics of production ofCSAs, the social embeddedness ofCSAs, and the farmers' motivations and rationalities. Qualitative data from interviews are used to interpret the results of an ordinary least squares regression analysis showing that (1) farmers' age, number of employees, and type ofCSAstrongly shape farmers' earnings; (2) the moral economy ofCSAcuts both ways economically, allowing for the capture of economic rents but more often resulting in self-exploitation because of farmers' strong sense of obligation to their members; and (3) farmers' motivations are diverse, but tend toward low and moderate instrumentalism, meaning that earning an income is often not a high priority relative to other values. The conclusion recommends the need to recognize alternative rationalities but also to discuss and confront strong self-exploitation in alternative food networks because of the broader political economic context in which they exist
Economic rent · Embeddedness · Qualitative property · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
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