Graduation Year
2019
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Environmental Analysis
Reader 1
Char Miller
Reader 2
Heather Williams
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© 2019 Gretchen P Alexander
OCLC Record Number
1101905275
Abstract
This thesis details the history of Claremont Market Shares, a Community Sourced Agriculture (CSA) project based out of Claremont, California. By using this project as a jumping off point for discussing local food networks, buzzwords such as "organic" and "local" are analyzed and re-defined. I argue for a people-based food network model over the currently popular 'place-based' that prioritizes producer-consumer relationships. The CSA functions as a sustainable model of this ideology.
Recommended Citation
Alexander, Gretchen, "Why CSAs Matter: (re)localizing for people-based food networks" (2019). Scripps Senior Theses. 1283.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/1283
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