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The European Community Supported Agriculture Movement Supports the Common Agriculture and Food Policy for Radical Ecological Change
URGENCI, the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)1 network and its national members from 12 European countries held an advocacy capacity building session in Brussels. This training session took place on the 14th, 15th, 16th of May. CSA advocates had an unprecedented opportunity to share experience and to refine their key messages.
Webinar on the Financial Sustainability of CSA Farms
The 4th Episode of the 1st Season of the CSA Webinar Series is scheduled for the 8th of May 2019, 17.30 (CEST). It will address the issue of the financial sustainability of CSA farms in concrete terms.
Webinar on PGS and CSA
The 3rd Episode of the 1st Season of the CSA Webinar Series is scheduled for the 24 April 2019, 18.30 (GMT+1). It will address the relationship between Community Supported Agriculture and Participatory Guarantee Systems (PGS).
Healthy Food from Healthy Soils
Webinar on Agricultural Strategies and CSA Welcome to the second session of the 2019 CSA Webinar Series! Our webinar, scheduled on 17 April 2019, is going to address the relationship between CSA and farming. The leading questions will be: What type of agriculture would motivate a customer to go the
The MedNet Show: A Short Movie about the Learning Journey in Turkey is Available
By Jocelyn Parot, General Secretary The members of the Mediterranean network of Local and Solidarity -based Partnerships for Agroecology (MedNet) came up with a Vision during its 2nd meeting, held in Thessaloniki in November 2018. This was the result of an intensive maturation process. Several “Common Training Framework Editing Workshops”
First SolidBase Test Seminar in the Czech Republic
“How to manage CSA” was the name of the first of the four upcoming testing seminars in the European project “SolidBase – Financial Sustainability Education for Solidarity-Based Food System”, where we look for new ways to support the financial self-sufficiency of solidarity food systems, including Community Supported Agriculture.
More Farmers, Better Food: Nyeleni Europe Releases a Position Paper on the CAP
29 March 2019 – Sustainable small farmers should be put at the core of EU agricultural policy, according to a new paper released today by the Nyeleni Europe and Central Asia Platform for Food Sovereignty [1]. The strongly documented publication comes ahead of a key vote in the European Parliament’s
First Workshop on the Financial Sustainability of CSA in Germany
The first SolidBase workshop on the financial sustainability of Community Supported Agriculture farms was held in Germany last February.
Basics for CSA Groups
CSAct !, a Community-Supported Agriculture collaborative training programme, is developing the first Webinar Series dedicated to CSA. First session on “Basics for CSA groups”, 3 April, 18.30 (GMT+1). Welcome!
Another Food System is possible
How does the German Bidding Round system work in practice? Here is an example from January 2019 from Solawi Marburg-Giessen.
#CSADay on the 22nd of February
The #CSADay was launched for the first time in 2015 as a sign-up day in the US by Small Farm Central. Since then, CSA has kept growing as a truly international phenomenon, with initiatives on all continents mobilizing more than 2 million consumers.
First SolidBase Research Results Shared in Thessaloniki
By Peter Volz, European CSA Research Group and Agronauten Photo Courtesy: Sara Meissner The Thessaloniki International, European and Mediterranean CSA meeting in November 2018 featured a workshop on “Financial Sustainability of CSA and other types of solidarity-based food systems in Europe”. Peter Volz from the research organisation AGRONAUTEN and Jocelyn
