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Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) - Transforming local food systems - subproject B (nascent)
Project
Project code: 01UT1928 B
Contract period: 01.02.2020
- 31.12.2021
Budget: 95,641 Euro
Purpose of research: Applied research
Keywords: Community supported agriculture (CSA), resilience, local food systems, alternative food networks (AFN), regional supply, food system transformation
The project addresses the negative socio-ecological consequences of the industrialized food system and investigates the potentials and limits of the transformation effect of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). From this, the overall research interest is derived: What are the potentials and limits of the principle of CSA as an activator for regional value creation for transforming the food system with the goal of sustainability and resilience? What role do agricultural service providers play in this? The aim of the project is to analyze and promote firstly the stabilization, secondly the diffusion, thirdly the further development of CSA into regions with comprehensive local food supply and fourthly the conversion of ordinary farms. This is done on a regional economic level from an internal and external perspective. The project follows a transdisciplinary research approach and builds on findings from a previous project. According to this, CSA farms have a high potential for innovation and transformation. Contrary to the tendency towards progressive agglomeration of food production on increasingly fewer, but often rapidly growing farms, CSA farms succeed in stabilizing small-scale agricultural practices and thus in overcoming the system-immanent grow-or-die-dilemma. They also provide ecosystem-stabilizing services and contribute to social cohesion and local community building. Such ecological and cultural effects are rewarded by consumers through increased willingness to pay and motivation to support new forms of supply through direct participation. The main contributions of the research project are the sustainability effects of CSA farms, the strengthening of community building and social cohesion on a regional level, the preservation of farms and the resilience of local supply structures. The results will be integrated into a transdisciplinary, practice- and application-oriented guideline.
Section overview
Subjects
- Business administration
- Agricultural Sociology
Funding programme
Excutive institution
II. School of Computing Science, Business Administration, Economics, and Law
