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

Douadia Bougherara, Gilles Grolleau () and Naoufel Mzoughi

Ecological Economics, 2009, vol. 68, issue 5, 1488-1495

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 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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