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Buy local, pollute less: What drives households to join a community supported farm?

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Douadia Bougherara
Gilles Grolleau
Naoufel Mzoughi

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This paper examines which factors determine the participation of households in long term contracting with local farmers. Are households motivated by reducing the environmental impacts of their food consumption? A discrete-choice model of community supported agriculture (CSA) participation is applied to a sample of 264 French households. The findings suggest that difficult-to-measure attributes, notably environmental considerations play a major role in explaining CSA participation.

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Paper provided by INRA UMR SMART in its series Working Papers SMART - LERECO with number 200903.

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Keywords: community supported agriculture; food supply; transaction cost economics;

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D13 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Production and Intrahouse Allocation
D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
Q13 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Agriculture - - - Agricultural Markets and Marketing; Cooperatives; Agribusiness

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