DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism 2019, 11(1):42-54 | DOI: 10.32725/det.2019.003

Characteristics of community supported agriculture in the Western Transdanubia region

Károly Kacz, Judit Hegyi, Nóra Gombkötő
Széchenyi István University, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Address: 9200 Mosonmagyaróvár, Vár tér 2

Keywords: Short food supply chain, Community supported agriculture, Problem tree, Objective tree, Producer, Consumer

Both industrialization of agriculture and globalization of food trade have begun in the 20th century. Consumer habits have also undergone major changes in line with altered processes in the structure of food trade initiating merits as well as drawbacks. For instance, currently small-scale agriculture or local product supporting consumption is increasingly forced to play a marginal role all over the world. Small farmers are underrepresented in most traded venue, while production is shifting towards bigger market participants. Locally, this means that the volume of production, labour requirements and diversity of products will be reduced, consequently local characteristics will slowly disappear. As an essential requirement for such production the traditional knowledge will not be able to be passed down to forthcoming generations. As a result of a survey, a problem and an objective tree of community supported agriculture was created. These problem/target trees were constructed after an analysis of CSA through a scrutiny of several farmer's organization and individual consumers in the Western Transdanubia region of Hungary. Followed by the evaluation of data the most influential factor, the basic problem was determined, as a consequence of which the long-term, strategic objective in terms of the market power of CSA organizations has been set forth.

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Kacz, K., Hegyi, J., & Gombkötő, N. (2019). Characteristics of community supported agriculture in the Western Transdanubia region. DETUROPE - The Central European Journal of Regional Development and Tourism11(1), 42-54. doi: 10.32725/det.2019.003
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