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Provides a history of this movement, its objectives, how it works, how it is organized and how it benefits consumers, families and farmers.

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• AFSIC: Community Supported Agriculture - Explains CSA, helps find local farms, provides information economics on eating seasonally and regionally, provides CSA resources economics for farmers and helps locate organizations and Web economics sites.
• Community Supported Agriculture: An Introduction to CSA - Provides a history of this movement, its objectives, how it works, how it is organized and how it benefits consumers, families and farmers.
• Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas - A short paper overviewing what a CSA is and what it takes to get one going from a farmers perspective. Includes a good bibliography of resources. Prepared in 1997 by Lane Greer of Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas in Fayetteville, Arkansas
• Eating for Your Community - This short article by Robyn Van En, one of the community supported agriculture founders of CSA in the US, overviews when and why community supported agriculture the CSA movement hit the United States and is followed community supported agriculture by "CSA Roots in Japan" by Brewster Kneen.

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