2013 Volume 5 Issue 1 Pages 21-31
While aiming at an equal relationship of producer-consumer, TEIKEI has continued to work for more than 30 years as a form of practice of Organic Agriculture Movements. TEIKEI has not overcoming the relationship between the consumer and the supplier, because of the nature of as a social movement seeking safe food. Then fallen into competition with other operators as a distribution channel of safe food, TEIKEI are facing the sharp decrease of the number of participants, such as the dissolution of the participating organizations. At the stage of immature products as organic produce, it is capable of as a product distribution is as demonstrated by conventional phenomenon seen in Europe and Japan if the current mature.
On the other hand, in contrast to the stagnation of TEIKEI in Japan, CSA has spread on the origin in the United States, in Europe and the United States has shown a considerable extent. Comparing to the transformation of TEIKEI and ACP in the practice and philosophy of both following the principles of TEIKEI, we can see the possibility of CSA and the outlook of partnership between producers and consumers in the future.