Buy local, pollute less: What drives households to join a community supported farm?

By D. Bougherara, Gilles Grolleau, N. Mzoughi. 2009

127 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This paper examines which factors determine the participation of households in long term contracting with local farmers. Are households motivated by reducing the environmental impacts of their food consumption? A discrete-choice model of community supported agriculture (CSA) participation is applied to a sample of 264 French households. The findings suggest that difficult-to-measure attributes, notably environmental considerations play a major role in explaining CSA participation.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. Adanella Rossi
2. H. Renting
3. M. Schermer
4. O. Schutter

In Plant Science

1. H. Renting
2. M. Schermer
3. Adanella Rossi
4. O. Schutter

Citations in the corpus

• Building Food Democracy: Exploring Civic Food Networks and Newly Emerging Forms of Food Citizenship (2012, background): “For producers and for consumers, natural capital in the quality and freshness of the produce and care of the environment were important reasons for participation in AFNs (Cooley and Lass, 1998; O’Hara and Stagl, 2001; Bougherara et al., 2009).”
• The political economy of food systems reform (2017, background): “cultivating vegetable gardens, or to pay a premium for fair trade goods, because they care about the environment or about social equity (Bougherara et al., 2009).”