The second axis should be an investigation on the attempts to set boundaries that clearly separates CSA
from a purely “business driven model”. A common rule that is emerging from the existing Charters
(France and the UK) is that CSA requires a strong commitment, since it relies heavily on the voluntary
work of consumers and involvement in a solidarity-based not-for-profit rather then market-oriented
interest. The case of the very detailed regulation passed in 2014 in the State of California, backed by
local CSA farmers and a CSA network called “the community Alliance for Family Farmers, is very
interesting (2). It shows that there is an strong feeling about the need to act in order to protect against
“non farm-based aggregated box schemes” from calling themselves CSA. The ongoing debate on a very
successful Internet platform-based box scheme in France, and the tensions with the CSA movement, are
another sign of the same phenomenon.