Buy local, pollute less: what drives households to join a community supported farm?

Douadia Bougherara, Gilles Grolleau () and Naoufel Mzoughi

Abstract: This paper examines which factors determine the participation of households in long term contracting with local farmers. Are households motivated by reducing the environmental impacts of their food consumption? A discrete-choice model of community supported agriculture (CSA) participation is applied to a sample of 264 French households. The findings suggest that difficult-to-measure attributes, notably environmental considerations play a major role in explaining CSA participation.

Keywords: community supported agriculture; food supply; transaction cost economics; coûts de transaction; amap (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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Published in Ecological Economics, 2009, 68 (5), pp.1488-1495. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.10.009⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2008.10.009

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