Community Supported Agriculture
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[ edit ] History Community-supported agriculture began in the early 1960s in Germany, Switzerland and Japan as a response to concerns about food safety and the urbanization of agricultural land. In the 1960s groups of consumers and farmers in Europe formed cooperative partnerships to fund farming and pay the full costs of ecologically sound and socially equitable agriculture.
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2009 Survey of Community Supported Agriculture Producers . (July 2009) Cooperative Extension Service, College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky. Analysis of survey findings on the business and marketing practices of 205 CSA farms in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and West Virginia. http://www.uky.edu/Ag/NewCrops/csareport.pdf CSA 2001: An Evolving Platform for Ecological and Economical Agricultural Marketing and Production . (2005) University of Massachusetts. Analysis and update of previous surveys, with emphasis on the U.S.