Value structures determining community supported agriculture: insights from Germany

Community-supported agriculture (CSA): Significance and prospects for growth for individuals, communities, and food systems

“…They suggest three routes for CSA enterprises to encourage member retention: addressing some needs for customer choice, finding people who have the CSA mindset, or cultivating people to have the CSA mindset (61). The results of a recent study of German CSA initiatives show that CSA members have specific distinguishable characteristics such as openness to change, universalism and benevolence; therefore, targeting these characteristics might be a key for member retention (88). The criticism about social justice originates from the fact that the CSA concept is based on up-front payment and the lower-income groups do not have the means to pay large sums to the grower, especially given the risk of not receiving the food if the season is bad.…”

Values of farmers – Evidence from Germany

“…Apart from these conservational values, they identified self-transcendence more pronounced than self-enhancement (Dobricki, 2011;Baur et al, 2016). Diekmann and Theuvsen (2019) identified for CSA members a high importance of self-transcendence and openness to change values. Conservational and self-enhancement values appear to be of less importance for this sample.…”

“…Regarding Germany, Baur et al (2016) include a rather old subsample (N = 224) of German farmers (average age of 60 years) within their analysis of the value portrait of Swiss farmers. Diekmann and Theuvsen (2019) analyse the value portrait of members of community supported agriculture (CSA), meaning a sample of consumers not farmers, in Germany. Apart from these, to the best of the authors' knowledge, there is no study investigating exclusively and in depth the basic values of German farmers on the basis of a large sample and a standardised value theory.…”

Поддерживаемое Сообществом Сельское Хозяйство: Определение Программы Исследования На Основе Библиометрического Анализа

“…Растущая обеспокоенность общества в отношении экологии и безопасности сельского хозяйства привела к тому, что все большее число потребителей ищут альтернативные формы поставок высококачественных продуктов питания, такие как сельское хозяйство, поддерживаемое сообществом (Community Supported Agriculture, CSA) [1]. CSA это модель прямого взаимодействия фермера с потребителtм, своего рода партнерство между местными фермерами и клиентами, которые платят фермерам установленную цену до начала сезона за «долю» урожая с фермы [3].…”