Local food systems are not necessarily designed to completely isolate themselves from trade, but rather they aim to adapt local food production and markets to suit the environmental and health priorities of a community
. They form a viable counter-movement to the globalised food system in which local ecology, culture, trusting relationships and access to healthy food thrive
. Local food system models include farmers’ markets, community-supported agricultural enterprises (CSA), roadside stands, box schemes, pick-your-own enterprises and community gardens
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. CSA are a relatively new concept, having originated in Japan and Switzerland in the 1960s and designed to share the risks and benefits of food production between the farmer and the consumer
. Community gardens may be an allotment garden, where individuals have ownership, or shared spaces, where the food production is pooled among the community