3) How sustainable are primary and secondary enterprise levels of CSA in terms of career-long economic and quality of life rewards for farm families? What means of assessment can determine whether a CSA farm is viable in the laSo far in this chapter I have traced the global history and development of CSA and
examined AFN literature as an aid to understanding CSA in the UK. I suggest that
the diverse forms of CSA can be conceived as activities that take place in the
interstices of policy and dominant discourse and practice. In this next section I
introduce my professional background of community development and show how
CSA, or some expressions of it, are intimately linked to the values and purpose of
community development practice, which is also often concerned with localised
attempts to ‘perform the economy otherwise’ and challenge existing power
structuresong run?