Mert-Cakal Tezcan, Miele Mara
Cardiff University Alumna, School of Geography and Planning, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA Wales UK.
School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Glamorgan Building, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA Wales UK.
Agric Human Values. 2020;37(4):1241-1260. doi: 10.1007/s10460-020-10141-6. Epub 2020 Aug 18.
The focus of this article is community supported agriculture (CSA) as an alternative food movement and a bottom-up response to the problems of the dominant food systems. By utilizing social innovation approach that explores the relationship between causes for human needs and emergence of socially innovative food initiatives, the article examines how the CSA projects emerge and why, what is their innovative role as part of the social economy and what is their transformative potential. Based on qualitative data from four different models of CSA case studies in different regions of Wales, UK, and by using concepts from an alternative model for social innovation (ALMOLIN) as analytical tool, the article demonstrates that the Welsh CSA cases play distinctive roles as part of the social economy. They satisfy the needs for ecologically sound and ethically produced food, grown within communities of like-minded people and they empower individuals and communities at micro level, while at the same time experiment with how to be economically sustainable and resilient on a small scale. The paper argues that in order to become 'workable utopias', the CSA initiatives need to overcome the barriers that prevent them from replicating, participating in policies and decision-making at macro level, and scaling up.
本文的重点是社区支持农业（CSA），它作为一种替代性的食物运动，是对主导性食物体系问题的一种自下而上的回应。通过运用社会创新方法，该方法探索人类需求的成因与具有社会创新性的食物倡议的出现之间的关系，本文考察了CSA项目是如何以及为何出现的，它们作为社会经济一部分的创新作用是什么，以及它们的变革潜力是什么。基于来自英国威尔士不同地区四个不同模式的CSA案例研究的定性数据，并使用一种替代性社会创新模式（ALMOLIN）中的概念作为分析工具，本文表明威尔士的CSA案例作为社会经济的一部分发挥着独特作用。它们满足了对在志同道合的人群社区内种植的生态友好型和符合道德生产标准的食物的需求，并且在微观层面增强了个人和社区的能力，同时还在试验如何在小规模上实现经济可持续性和恢复力。本文认为，为了成为“可行的乌托邦”，CSA倡议需要克服那些阻碍它们复制、参与宏观层面的政策和决策以及扩大规模的障碍。
