Re-Thinking Knowledge in Community-Supported Agriculture to Achieve Transformational Change towards Sustainability
Community-supported agriculture has gained a significant amount of prominence in recent years by offering a more sustainable and morally acceptable alternative to conventional food systems. Their organization offers a modern take on how to manage production by supporting the usage and exchange of...
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Philipps-Universität Marburg
2023
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| Zusammenfassung: | Community-supported agriculture has gained a significant amount of prominence in recent
years by offering a more sustainable and morally acceptable alternative to conventional food systems.
Their organization offers a modern take on how to manage production by supporting the usage and
exchange of knowledge between all stakeholders involved. The leverage points concept argues that
re-thinking how knowledge is produced and used in systems is one of the key realms of leverage
in which transformation towards sustainability can be achieved. Current sustainability research
lacks a focus on deep leverage points that bear great potential for transformational change. This
concept, however, revolves around these deep realms of leverage and has not been applied to CSA
yet. Thus, a qualitative study with semi-structured interviews has been performed at 22 CSA farms
in Germany in order to gather detailed insights on the production and flow of knowledge and
analyze if and to what degree these CSAs have the potential to leverage transformational change
towards sustainability. This analysis helps to understand how certain mechanisms can influence
sustainability in a positive manner and promote the usage of these mechanisms in the agricultural
landscape. Ultimately, the data indicates that CSAs do bear great potential to leverage sustainability
transformation in regard to re-thinking agriculture. Characteristics that lead to this cognition are a
highly cooperative, participatory and transparent structure, characteristics that allow for the creation
and exchange of information to flourish. |
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| Beschreibung: | Gefördert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der UB Marburg. |
| DOI: | 10.3390/su151813388 |