Community Supported Agriculture in the Urban Fringe: Empirical Evidence for Project Feasibility in the Metropolitan Area of Naples (Italy)

International Journal on Food System Dynamics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 326-339

  Cicia, Gianni ^a   Colantuoni, Francesca ^b   Teresa, Del Giudice ^a   Pascucci, Stefano ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cluster Analysis; Community Supported Agriculture; peri urban agriculture; Regional Park of Campi Flegrei

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875199348     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18696945     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18461/ijfsd.v2i3.2310     Document Type: Article

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