Community-supported agriculture and organic farming in Germany
Food

Community-supported agriculture and organic farming in Germany

In Germany, an old solution is again coming to the fore: community-supported agriculture. It brings together producers and consumers, enabling organic farming.

Small farms can hardly compete, with production costs often higher than market prices. And aside from farmers, the environment also suffers: monoculture-crop farming and the use of pesticides create pollution problems and threaten biodiversity. But potential solutions are possible, as community-supported agriculture shows: When consumers and farmers team up to produce groceries collaboratively, this liberates farmers from the mass market, spreads the risk of crop shortfalls over many shoulders, and enables organic farming.

“The system is also in solidarity, because the membership fee is not set. In the bidding at the beginning of the year, everyone contributes as much as he or she can.” 

 

(Lisa Schaefer)

Read the full article via Daily News Egypt.

[Photo by seier+seier - Flickr]

Community-supported agriculture and organic farming in Germany

Good practices and European projects map

@AgoraMedSpring

Good practices and European projects map

About the author

Medspring Agora team's picture

The Euro-Mediterranean AGORA is a way to engage the civil society in the institutional and policy dialogue on research and innovation with the aim of becoming an integral part of the decision making and governance processes.

The Agora is an important component of the broader MEDSPRING project, supported by the European Union with the aim of strengthening the Euro-Mediterranean dialogue and cooperation on research and innovation.