This comprehensive overview of local food systems explores alternative definitions of local
food, estimates market size and reach, describes the characteristics of local consumers and …

Green infrastructure integrates human and natural systems through a network of corridors
and spaces in mixed-use and urban settings. Austin takes a broad look at green …

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 …

Abstract The Community Supported Agriculture marketing model has evolved from its early
roots, adapting to both increases in local food demand and consumer market engagement …

In many ways, farm-direct marketing channels are the simplest and most transparent part of
the food system: products go straight from producers to consumers, and money travels back …

Community supported agriculture (CSA), an innovative food distribution model that
encourages environmentally sound agricultural production, has been embraced in Turkey …

Local food and short food supply chains are in the centre of attention among consumers,
NGOs as well as policy makers. These systems have long tradition the US and Western …

The central concern of this paper is the linkages between contradiction and social change,
as developed in the work of Nishida Kitarō, a critical social philosopher who explored the …

Using the framework of cumulative prospect theory (CPT), we investigate consumers'
decision to participate in community-supported agriculture (CSA) under risk and uncertainty …

Cooperative Extension has a 100-year history of working within the national system of land-
grant universities to assist in the growth of farmers and the agriculture industry. Amish and …