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Community-supported agriculture as collaborative practice: interdisciplinary analysis

A community-supported agriculture (CSA) was introduced into Croatia in 2009, immediately after the 2008 economic crisis. This grassroots movement falls within the wide range of activities belonging to yet another global initiative - solidarity economy. CSA in Croatia developed in two distinct directions - one in Istria and other in Zagreb and its surroundings. Initially, in Croatia the initiative became familiar under the name of Groups of Solidary Exchange (Grupe solidarne razmjene, (GSR)), but since the end of 2014, the initiative in Istria took the name of Solidarity Ecological Groups (Solidarne ekološke grupe, (SEG)). The main difference between the two “forms” of CSA in Croatia is related to a legal framework. In Istria the development of the CSA was linked with the Istrian Ecological Producers (IEP) NGO, resulting in more formal regulation regarding the certification processes and selling products on public areas. This was not the case in other parts of Croatia, where CSA was organized in more alternative way.

community-supported agriculture, collaborative practice, Croatia, interdisciplinary analysis

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