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Stochastic Efficiency Analysis of Community-Supported Agriculture Core Management Options

Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2001
The continued decline in both the number of and the acreage in small-scale farms and rural communities, as well as food safety and environmental concerns, has heightened interest in the community-supported agriculture (CSA) concept.
Njundu Sanneh, L. Joe Moffitt, Daniel A. Lass   +2 more
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Grower Perspectives in Community Supported Agriculture [PDF]

HortTechnology, 2004
Community supported agriculture (CSA) is an alternative model of farming in which consumers become “members” of a farm, by contract, to receive a share of the harvest. Case study interviews were used to ascertain CSA grower perspectives, as indicated by sources of information and motivations.
openaire   +1 more source

Polyphenol‐Inspired Materials for Agricultural Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review outlines the use of polyphenol‐inspired materials for sustainable agriculture, highlighting their molecular design, interfacial assembly, structure–property relationships, and prospects toward precision agriculture, climate resilience, ecosystem protection, and circular bioeconomy strategies.
Haofu Liu, Omid Mazaheri, Zhixing Lin, Tianzheng Wang, Jingqu Chen, Yuang Gu, Xia Liang, Deli Chen, Frank Caruso   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advanced Manufacturing of Composite‐Based Systems for Energy Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Advanced manufacturing enables the integration of polymers, ceramics, metal oxides, and composites into architected microstructures with tailored transport pathways. By coupling material selection, manufacturing strategy, and structural design, multifunctional energy systems can simultaneously improve electrochemical performance, thermal management ...
Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Dhanush Patil, Libin Yang, M. Taylor Sobczak, Anshul Kulkarni, Xiao Sun, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Tiantian Li, Ramaraja P. Ramasamy, Jason J. Locklin, Yanyu Chen, Xianqiao Wang, Arunachala Mada Kannan, Kenan Song   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Community Supported Agriculture as An Emancipatory Tool: A Participatory

Journal of Rural and Community Development
This article presents the results of a participatory action research study conducted in the north of Italy and Germany between 2018 and 2020 to contribute to the creation of a Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA) experience.
Alessandra Piccoli
doaj   +1 more source

From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Designing a community-supported agriculture model for increasing food security [PDF]

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The institutionalization of participation is a topic that has been discussed in different ways over the last few decades. There are many diverse aspects of the agricultural sector and rural communities that can be identified and used to bring about a ...
M. Malek Lou, S. M. Mirdamadi, S. Shokri, S. J. F. Hosseini   +3 more
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Articuler un « penser global » et un « agir local » : la territorialisation des « Community Supported Agriculture »

Développement Durable et Territoires, 2020
The increase of “Community Supported Agriculture” (CSA) and their variants is observed all over the world, from concerns formulated everywhere in very similar terms: to look for a healthy diet, to promote an environment-friendly farming, to favor the ...
Michaël Pouzenc
doaj   +1 more source

Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder, Jelizaveta Konstantinova, Graham Deacon, Kaspar Althoefer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Fostering sustainable agriculture: An exploration of localised food systems through community supported agriculture

Environmental and Sustainability Indicators
This study sheds light on the potential of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) as a strategic initiative to foster the development of a more resilient, eco-conscious, and community-centred food system.
Ming-Jie Tay, Tuan-Hock Ng, Ying-San Lim
doaj   +1 more source