Since the agricultural sector has changed from conventional to a huge farm industry focus has changed
more from quality to quantity with the result that farmers feel more than ever cut in their capabilities
to produce healthy, fresh, good quality food. In the 80’s pioneer Jan van der Tuin introduced a new
concept in the USA that was designed to shorten the growing gap between producer and consumer;
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). This concept of local food system combines aspects of trust,
reciprocity, responsibility, and cooperation, together as consumers become ‘part’ of a farmerproducer cooperation that is based on a ‘fair-income for the farmer’ principle. In the field of CSA, since
the 80’s, three types contain three types of known CSA types: Subscription farming, Shareholder CSA,
Self-harvesting CSA.