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teikei

teikei noun: a system of community-supported agriculture in Japan.

Noun

teikei (uncountable)

  1. A system of community-supported agriculture in Japan.
    • A contract was drawn and the teikei concept was born. Translated literally, teikei means “partnership,” but philosophically it means “food with the farmer's face on it.” Twenty years later, the teikei idea migrated to the United States, inspiring the […]2012, Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, New Society Publishers, →ISBN, page 134
    • Consumers who were unhappy with mainstream retailers and an agricultural policy that gave contradictory signals to farmers and society started forming Teikei (Kondoh 2015).2018, Stefan Mann, Socioeconomics of Agriculture, Springer, →ISBN, page 76

Origin of teikei

Borrowed from Japanese 提携 (teikei, “partnership”).

Questions about teikei

What does teikei mean?
Teikei means a system of community-supported agriculture in Japan.
What part of speech is teikei?
Teikei is a noun.

Words near teikei in the dictionary

  1. Teigngrace
  2. Teignmouth
  3. teiid
  4. teiids
  5. teikaside
  6. teikei
  7. teil
  8. Teilhardian
  9. Teilhet
  10. teils
  11. teilzone

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