| Summary: | 碩士 === 臺灣大學 === 生物產業傳播暨發展學研究所 === 98 === To explore the operation and development of community supported agriculture (CSA) farm in Taiwan, this thesis focuses on the Island Bio-Dynamic Farm. By conducting a review of the literature, participant observation, in-depth interviews, and survey, the analysis shows the CSA experiences of the Island Farm. This thesis also analyzes the characteristic of CSA with the concept of embeddedness.
The farmer of the Island Farm adopted CSA because of the farming philosophy background and economic needs. The development of CSA is embedded in the social network of Waldorf education community. It is also a process of embedding, where actors give and change the meaning of “community” and other activities to stabilize the network of CSA. Because CSA offers a reembedded situation, consumers in CSA ease their worry for the uncertainty of food quality.
However, CSA in the Island Farm does not create an economic and spiritual shared life. There is distance between consumers and producers. CSA as a reembedded system, never really gets away from market pressures. For survive, the Island Farm suffers from a disembedded force, which is to enlarge the scale of production. The challenge of the Island Farm is to find the balance between these two forces.
|
|---|
