Community Supported Agriculture thriving in China
URBAN AGRICULTURE MAGAZINE UA30
Judith Hitchman, June 2015
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Summary :
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is one of the best examples of a successful, alternative food distribution system, providing real income to producers and affordable healthy food for consumers. Food continues to be grown in peri-urban areas and trust between producers and consumers is strengthened. And China has not been left behind by this global movement, over 500 CSAs with 75,000 consumers are now contributing to new food systems in more than a dozen cities across the country.
Other articles in this journal:
Farmers in focus
Editorial:
Opinion: The WTO must allow support to national food systems
Community Supported Agriculture thriving in China
Growing a sense of place and community in Cape Town
Between city and country: domestic workers building food sovereignty
Youth and agriculture: Sidney Ortun Flament and Bruno Macias
Egyptian youth challenge the city–country divide
Opinion: Finding food security in the rural–urban continuum – Pablo Tittonell
Locally rooted: Ideas and initiatives from the field
Threatened landscapes unite rural and urban communities
Mind! New books on rural–urban linkages
Participatory certification supports local food systems
“Urban agroecology – a tool for social transformation” Interview with Antonio Lattuca
Producers and consumers build new food practices
Perspectives: Creating city region food systems
Globally connected: News from the AgriCultures Network and RUAF