**6.1 Support for community-based agriculture**

**Figure 2** shows that 48% of CAAs provide program support for community based food production, 53% support local farmers market and 36% support urban agriculture.

The data in **Figure 3** show that approximately 85% of CAAs rated the importance of farmers using organic methods to produce food greater than a 5 on a 7 point scale. We see this as indicating that CAAs believe that it is important for farmers to use organic methods, which is in contrast to the relatively small number (48%) of CAAs that offer program support for community-based food production.

Response is based on a 7-point scale Where (1) = not important and (7) = extremely important.

The response pattern in **Figure 3** also shows that over 80% of CAAs believe that it is important for farmers to use organic methods of production. The response pattern shown in **Table 1** below indicates that CAAs overwhelmingly agree that community-based farming is more likely to do a better job of preserving the land:

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**Table 1.**

*unfavorable and (5) = very favorable.*

*Summary of descriptives for selected variables.*

**Figure 2.**

**Figure 3.**

*Accounting for the Impact of Sustainable Agriculture: The Role of Community Based…*

*How important is it for more farmers to use organic methods for producing food? (N = 122).*

Land 1 2 7 71 20 Environment 2 6 8 67 18 Cooperative\* 3 2 11 59 25 Promote 2 1 5 69 23 *Response is based on a 5-point scale, where (1) = strongly disagree and (5) = very strongly disagree.\*(1) = very* 

**1 2 3 4 5**

**Items Ratings (%)**

*DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.84385*

*Support for community-based agriculture (N = 124).*

*Accounting for the Impact of Sustainable Agriculture: The Role of Community Based… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.84385*
