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Database research record2007·Global

Does community-supported agriculture support conservation?

Mark Anderson-Wilk

Journal of Soil and Water Conservation

Urban Farm DB summary

This abstract discusses the concept of Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA), pioneered in Japan and Europe in the 1960s and introduced to the US in the mid-1980s. CSAs are described as a model where individuals become farm members, sharing the risks and benefits of food production and receiving shares of local produce. The abstract introduces the question of whether CSAs support natural resource conservation but does not present any specific findings or conclusions regarding this question.