Small-scale, subsistence based farms are the most vulnerable, often widely excluded
players in modern global-scale trade of food products. On the other side of the chain,
consumers are increasingly alienated from the places and methods of their food production, finding themselves dependent on retail mass consumption. Under certain conditions
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) may offer an interesting alternative way to
create a real connection between producers and consumers. The logic behind CSA is that
local food sources should be used over global ones and that the drawbacks of large and
anonymous production chains can be bypassed by bringing producers and consumers
together in food-centred networks.