Civic Agriculture is the trend towards locally based agriculture and food production that is tightly linked to a community's social and economic development.

Civic agriculture represents a sustainable alternative to the potentially destructive practices of conventional, large-scale agriculture. The term was coined by the late Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Thomas A. Lyson, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, at the 1999 Rural Sociology Society Annual Meeting.

Manifestations of movement towards Civic Agriculture:

• Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
• Farmer's markets
• Specialized agricultural districts
• Alternative food stores
• Consumer cooperatives
  Consumers' cooperative
  Consumer cooperatives are enterprises owned by consumers and managed democratically which aim at fulfilling the needs and aspirations of their members. They operate within the market system, independently of the state, as a form of mutual aid, oriented toward service rather than pecuniary profit...