Exploring member trust in German community-supported agriculture: a multiple regression analysis.

ABSTRACT: Opaque value chains as well as environmental, ethical and health issues and food scandals are decreasing consumer trust in conventional agriculture and the dominant food system. As a result, critical consumers are increasingly turning to community-supported agriculture (CSA) to reconnect with producers and food. CSA is often perceived as a more sustainable, localized mode of food production, providing transparent production or social interaction between consumers and producers. This enables consumers to observe where their food is coming from, which means CSA is considered suitable for building trust in food (production). However, it remains unclear how exactly members' trust in 'their' farmers is built. To determine the factors that predict members' trust in CSA and its farmers, and the i

SUBMITTER: Zoll F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9638179 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature