CSA Marcellos en Suède
CSA Marcellos Farm in Sweden What do people do when they can not find proper organic food in the stores? They start a Community Supported Agriculture! By Juliette Snijders, Bondens Skyltfönster, September 2014. At the moment, CSA Marcellos Farm feeds 20 familys with an unlimited amount of vegetables. The families pay their pledge every month and are... Read More
Cordoba Symposium – 2010
Urgenci’s participation in the international seminar on short supply chain for organic farming held on November, 13th-14th, 2010, in Cordoba by Ecologistas en Accion This seminar was organised within the framework of the EcoAgroculturas project led by Ecologistas en Accion (www.ecologistasenaccion.org/) to support organic agriculture in Spain, co-funded by the city of Cordoba, the Biodiversidad... Read More
L’histoire des CSA en Allemagne
Wolfgang Stranz (transl. Jocelyn Parot), « A Short History of the German CSA », Teikei, n°26, september 2009 The CSA’s in Germany are a very peculiar theme, since the organic movement started very early here, while the subsequent developments occurred in a very singular way in comparison to the other countries. The Genesis of the German CSA... Read More
Les CSA en République tchèque
Czech Republic´s farming is based on industrial farms with average acreage of 800 hectares. Only 7 % of big agricultural enterprises “cultivate” 65 % of arable land in the country. Family farms with independant distribution cultivate only 6 % of arable land. The majority of the food production is distributed through retail chains widely owned... Read More
Les AMAP en France
AMAP, the French Community Supported agriculture model: business as usual or Social movement? Jocelyn Parot, 2014. In March 2012, the French AMAP, Associations pour le maintien d’une agriculture paysanne, Association for Maintaining Small Scale Family Farming in English, came surprisingly under the political limelight: they were object of a question to the government, asked by... Read More
Les CSA à Taïwan
[layerslider id= »4″] Elizabeth Henderson, « The CSA in Taiwan », october 2011. As a result of the Chinese translation of my book, Sharing the Harvest, the director of the Community College in Kaohsiung, and two small not-for profits, Green Formosa Front and the Community Empowering Society, brought me to Taiwan for a whirlwind week of lectures and farm... Read More
Rencontre des CSA en Chine
Elizabeth Henderson, « The CSA Movement in China », October 2011. Today’s citizens of China, Korea and Japan whose agriculture of a century ago F.H. King described so vividly in Farmers of Forty Centuries have almost forgotten the traditions that inspired so many of us in organic farming in the west. Fortunately, the traces have not totally... Read More