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Together with Maya Declich I am editing a book 📗 on #CommunitySupportedAgriculture (#CSA). This book will consist of three parts: 1. Foundations and principles of CSA, such as solidarity, food sovereignty, building local food communities, and sustainable production practices (e.g., agroecological, organic and regenerative methods). 2. The performance and impact of CSA, including reducing the environmental impact, promoting social inclusion and justice, improving access to and affordability of healthy food, and contributing to food system transformation. 3. CSA practices from a global perspective, highlighting concrete individual CSA cases and CSA models from different parts of the world 🗺️. For Part 1 of the book we have confirmations for all chapters we envisaged, but we are still looking for contributions for Parts 2 and 3. For Part 2 we are looking for contributions addressing the following topics and questions: a) Do CSAs strengthen producer-consumer or urban -rural relations? b) Are CSAs better capable of delivering (specific) #EcosystemServices? c) Are CSAs characterized by less #EnvironmentalImpact (in production, processing, distribution, waste)? d) Do CSAs help to improve #access to and #affordability of food? e) Are CSAs more socially #inclusive or are specific groups #excluded from participation? f) Does participation in CSAs result in #dietarychange and are there other #health and #wellbeing benefits? g) What is known about #labour conditions and #work satisfaction? h) Is it financially #profitable/#viable for farmers/producers to engage in CSAs? i) How #resilient or #vulnerable are CSA, especially in times of #shocks and #crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic? j) Does CSA participation lead to durable/sustainable changes in #foodpractices? k) What is the #transformative #capacity of CSAs to contribute to structural food system changes? If you are interested to contribute to the book with a chapter on one of these topics, please get in contact with us via csa.book@wur.nl or send me a DM on this platform. The same holds true for a contribution with a chapter on a specific CSA case or model for Part 3. And if you know of someone who might be interested to contribute, please forward or notify about this post.