Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a direct partnership between producer(s) and a group of consumers/members to share the risks and responsibilities of farming activities. CSA aims at producing and providing environmentally, socially, economically, and nutritionally sustainable food. Past research has focused on CSA members’ motivations. This research aims to gain a better understanding of CSA farmers’ perceived benefits and drawbacks in managing a CSA farm, and whether CSA management perception varies in dierent countries. The research collected data from 35 farmers that were based in the United States (US) and Hungary (HU). Data elaboration includes a one-way Anova test, Chi-square test, principal component analysis, and multiple multivariate linear regressions. The results support that US and HU farmers have similar positive perceptions of CSA farming management, especially in food quality, nutritional value products, environmental, and community benefits. The main dierences concentrate on economic, financial, and management perceptions. CSA success as an alternative agro-food production and distribution system relies on the capability to involve CSA members. Therefore, CSA farmers’ management skills may evolve to ensure the performance of communication and community engaging practices. The main CSA concern is ensuring a fair income and living wage for the farmers and labor force. There is a need for better balancing non-monetary and monetary benefits for the farmers.

Community supported agriculture farmers' perceptions of management benefits and drawbacks / Samoggia A.; Perazzolo C.; Kocsis P.; Del Prete M.. - In: SUSTAINABILITY. - ISSN 2071-1050. - ELETTRONICO. - 11:12(2019), pp. 3262.1-3262.21. [10.3390/su11123262]

Community supported agriculture farmers' perceptions of management benefits and drawbacks

Samoggia A.
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PERAZZOLO, CHIARA;DEL PRETE, MARGHERITA
2019

Abstract

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is a direct partnership between producer(s) and a group of consumers/members to share the risks and responsibilities of farming activities. CSA aims at producing and providing environmentally, socially, economically, and nutritionally sustainable food. Past research has focused on CSA members’ motivations. This research aims to gain a better understanding of CSA farmers’ perceived benefits and drawbacks in managing a CSA farm, and whether CSA management perception varies in dierent countries. The research collected data from 35 farmers that were based in the United States (US) and Hungary (HU). Data elaboration includes a one-way Anova test, Chi-square test, principal component analysis, and multiple multivariate linear regressions. The results support that US and HU farmers have similar positive perceptions of CSA farming management, especially in food quality, nutritional value products, environmental, and community benefits. The main dierences concentrate on economic, financial, and management perceptions. CSA success as an alternative agro-food production and distribution system relies on the capability to involve CSA members. Therefore, CSA farmers’ management skills may evolve to ensure the performance of communication and community engaging practices. The main CSA concern is ensuring a fair income and living wage for the farmers and labor force. There is a need for better balancing non-monetary and monetary benefits for the farmers.
2019
Community supported agriculture farmers' perceptions of management benefits and drawbacks / Samoggia A.; Perazzolo C.; Kocsis P.; Del Prete M.. - In: SUSTAINABILITY. - ISSN 2071-1050. - ELETTRONICO. - 11:12(2019), pp. 3262.1-3262.21. [10.3390/su11123262]
Samoggia A.; Perazzolo C.; Kocsis P.; Del Prete M.
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