Factors impacting producer marketing through community supported agriculture



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DOI: 
10.1371/journal.pone.0219498
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Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY)
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journal article
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Plos One
Number: 
7
Volume: 
14
Author(s): 
Dong H.
Campbell B.
Rabinowitz A.N.
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The purpose of this study is to explore the factors that drive producers to market their products through Community Support Agriculture (CSA) by using a county-level data set from the US. Results using a Tobit model indicate that specific operator characteristics, such as young and female operators and those engaged in farming as primary occupation, play a strongly positive role in the likelihood of marketing through CSA; farms with small size, rented land, and engagement in growing vegetables, melons, fruits and tree nut crops are more interested in marketing via CSA; households with higher income and females significantly increase the share of farms marketing through CSA; presence of children and seniors and being married are negatively related to the demand for CSA foods. Moreover, counties with higher density of population, establishments-supermarket and other grocery stores, and legislation or active programs that encourage local food consumption tend to encourage more farms marketing through CSA

Publication year: 
2019