Marius Rommel- Master of Arts
- Researcher at University of Siegen
Marius Rommel
- Master of Arts
- Researcher at University of Siegen
Research in the field of innovation-ecosystems and Community Supported Agriculture.
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Introduction
Marius Rommel is a sustainability economist at the Research Center for Pluralist Economics (University of Siegen) researching on degrowth, regionalization and local food systems. Since 2020 he is coordinating the research cluster nascent (www.nascent-transformativ.de) as well as the project SolaRegio (www.nascent-transformativ.de/nascent-solaregio) examining the resi-lience, food sovereignty and sustainability effects of small-scale and participatory business mo-dels. The current focus of this p
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This paper examines the potential for transferring the concept of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) to other fields of supply (Community Supported X -CSX-). The aim of the study is to develop a microeconomic model which, against the background of socio-ecological sustainability deficits, can represent a viable economic alternative in terms of a...
The current food industry is not sustainable. The way food supply is organized in industrialized countries is based on the consistent overuse of limited resources. This focus on continuous increases in efficiency (since industrial-ization) ignores the unavoidable external effects of this mode of production. Producers are subject to competition that...
Am Beispiel der Solidarischen Landwirtschaft (SoLawi) skizziert die Untersuchung ein dezentrales, kleinräumiges und bedarfsgerechtes Wirtschaftsprinzip der kleinen Einheiten. Eigenschaften einer gemeinschaftsgetragenen und maßvollen Ernährungsversorgung werden analysiert, um die Perspektive eines resilienten regionalen Wertschöpfungsraumes jenseits...
Alternative food networks (AFNs), and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in particular, are an example of sustainable farming practices. This paper focuses on regional cooperation and its consequences for food security by evaluating data from German field studies. Currently, the market share of CSA in Germany is marginal in absolute terms. Howev...
The current food system, focused on industrialization and growth, is facing multiple crisis and requires comprehensive transformation. One potential contribution to address some of these challenges is the concept of Community-Supported Agriculture (CSA). Although CSAs are mentioned as best-practice examples in important strategic documents for agri...
During the last 30 years, the number of farms in Germany has decreased by more than 50%. Due to socioeconomic pressures, particularly small- and medium-sized farms are forced to close down. A partial or full conversion to community-supported agriculture (CSA) might be an approach to increase the economic viability of a farm in the long term, as the...
Introduction
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is an emerging model within alternative food networks (AFNs). It shapes close relationships between food producers and consumers, thereby contributing to food sovereignty and agri-food system transformations. Despite rapid growth from about 10 to over 500 CSAs in just over a decade, the model in Ge...
Gemeinschaftsgetragenes Unternehmertum hat in den letzten Jahren an Aufmerksamkeit gewonnen. Innerhalb der bestehenden Wirtschaftsordnung stellt es eine Alternative zum dominanten marktwirtschaftlichen System dar. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt die Grundzüge dieses Modells in Abgrenzung zu anderen Wirtschaftsformen.
Auf eine vielversprechende Entwicklung im Agrar- und Ernährungssystem weist die stetig wachsende Zahl Solidarischer Landwirtschaftsbetriebe (SoLawi) weltweit. Diese verkörpern entgegen zunehmender Konzentrationsprozesse in der Landwirtschaft ein dezentrales, kleinräumiges und bedarfsgerechtes Wirtschaftsprinzip kleiner Einheiten, das sich der Probl...
Als Antwort auf globale Problemstrukturen praktizieren in der Landwirtschaft immer mehr Betriebe eine andere Art des (Land-)Wirtschaftens: SoLaWi (kurz für Solidarische Landwirtschaft) nennen sie das oder im englischsprachigen Raum CSA (für Community Supported Agriculture). Dabei schließen sich Produzenten und Konsumenten mit dem Ziel zusammen, sic...
The objective of this study is to investigate in which way CSA provides an answer to the disruptions of industrialized and globalized agriculture and how its specific transformation potentials towards agroecology, solidarity and community can contribute to multi-level resilience in the food sector and beyond. The study aims to (1) theoretically out...
Alternative food networks (AFNs), and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) in particular, are an example of sustainable farming practices. This paper focuses on regional cooperation and its consequences for food security by evaluating data from German field studies. Currently, the market share of CSA in Germany is marginal in absolute terms. Howev...
The production of food within cities through urban agriculture can be considered as a nature-based solution and is argued to be an important response to the current COVID-19 pandemic as well as to climate change and other urban challenges. However, current research on urban agriculture is still fragmented, calling for a systematic and integrative a...
As a multiple crisis experience, the Covid-19 pandemic shows impact on food systemsworldwide, especially in terms of their resilience (Féodoroffet al.,2021).
The existing discourse about necessary changes towards healthy, ecological and, above all, decentralized production and distribution of food has now intensified (Lamine, 2015; Worstell, 2020)....
Die Bewegung der Solidarischen Landwirtschaft (Community Supported Agriculture – CSA) wächst dynamisch, inzwischen breitet sich die Idee der geteilten Verantwortung auch auf weitere Produkte wie Brot und Bier aus. Neue solidarische Handelsbeziehungen zum globalen Süden bauen sich ebenfalls auf. Doch nicht nur in der Landwirtschaft verbreitet sich d...
Solidarische Landwirtschaft ist mehr als eine Unternehmensform. Sie ist das Modell eines Wirtschaftens jenseits von Markt-und Preisdruck. Sie schafft eine Bindung zwischen Konsument und Produzent, in der beide Seiten gemeinsam Verantwortung für die Lebensmittelversorgung tragen
Unter dem Leitbegriff einer Ökonomie der Nähe beschäftigen sich Marius Rommel, Niko Paech und Carsten Sperling mit der horizontalen Ausbreitung resilienter Versorgungsmuster. Vertikales Wachstum kann für transformative Unternehmen keine ihren Charakter sichernde Strategie darstellen. Gestützt auf Erkenntnisse der Diffusionsforschung charakterisiere...
Die Vielfalt, also auch Heterogenität der beteiligten Praxispartner war eine wesentliche Erfolgsvoraussetzung des Projektes nascent. Marius Rommel, Christine Lenz, Carsten Sperling und Sven Stinner legen als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter/innen des Projekts eine Typologie vor, die es erleichtert, die Entwicklungspotenziale der transformativen Untern...
Der transformative Charakter so gestarteter unternehmerischer Initiativen ist nicht ein für allemal garantiert. Niko Paech, Marius Rommel und Carsten Sperling konstatieren ein Trilemma, über das der transformative Charakter mit Maßen betriebswirtschaftlicher und sozialer Stabilität verkoppelt ist. Für die betriebswirtschaftliche Stabilität braucht...
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As one prominent economic practice within the movement of alternative food networks (AFNs) Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is discussed as a promising approach towards forming close relationships between farmers and consumers ultimately contributing to food sovereignty on a regional level. In the recent decade the concept has gained popularity all over the world. However, CSA is still lacking a scientific typological analysis which systematizes the diversity of organizational forms.
I am interested in any scientific contribution that either aims at systematically typologizing the phenomena of CSA or at least describes various types of CSA that can be identified in practice.
Studies show that the CSA-principle is transferable to other goods and services (CS-X), such as health and wellness, construction and repair services, restaurants and catering, music and other creative arts, and even recreation and tourism. The core of a Community Supported Enterprise is that products are no longer sold for a price that is determined in an anonymous and, often volatile, market. Instead, consumers finance production on the farm or in the business, and thus, shelter it and themselves from the volatility and anonymity of the market.
Which projects of applied transfer of the CSA model to other fields of goods or services to you know? Which studies already deal with this topic?
CSA can be seen as a countermodel to market-based agriculture as it enables to overcome the market-inherent grow-or-die-dilemma. Our research interest lies in the specific attributes that form out this unique model.
