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**Chapter 5**

**Abstract**

Agriculture

ensuring collective impact.

**1. Introduction**

Accounting for the Impact of

in Promoting Sustainable

*Terrence Thomas, Cihat Gunden and Befikadu Legesse*

**Keywords:** collective impact, community-based agriculture, participative governance, organic food production, community-based organizations

Clarifying exactly what a concept represents provides the information needed for identifying its constituent elements and distinguishing it from other concepts. Description of an object or thing provides insight into the nature of what that thing is and what it can do. Since what a thing can do depends on what it is, insights into its nature enables us to hypothesize about potential courses of action regarding that thing. Or, to be more specific, insights developed from clarifying the definition of organic agriculture or, more broadly, a sustainable agricultural production system, enables us to design courses of action that lead to a more enduring and fruitful

Sustainable Agriculture: The Role

and Local Governance Structures

This chapter explores the role of community-based organizations (CBOs) in promoting and sustaining an organic/sustainable food production system. The chapter argues that CBOs offer a unique platform for this purpose considering their potential to promote collective impact and overcome our ancestral tendencies that tend to discourage sustainable behavior. The chapter discusses the role of local governance in creating the institutional support that drives collective systemic impacts. The chapter uses data collected via a telephone survey of a census of Community Action Agencies (CAAs) to assess the level of support for sustainable agriculture, organic methods of production, and the responsibility of citizens in supporting locally produced food. The results show that CBOs believe in organic/ sustainable and community-based food production system. CAAs support for a sustainable food production system speaks to their potential to serve as a linchpin in their communities for promoting sustainable agricultural production systems and

of Community Based Organization
