Literature review, analysis of secondary data and policy documents provided the foundation for the research.
The field component of the study employed participant observations and in-depth interviews with all the
farmers managing farmer-led Hungarian CSA farms in the year we collected our data. In 2012 we found 10
CSA operations in Hungary, so our study extended to all stakeholders of the segment. Because of the very
small sample size we did not use statistical methods for our analyses.