teikei

English

Etymology

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

Noun

teikei (uncountable)

1. A system of community-supported agriculture in Japan.
   • 2012, Michael Lewis, Patrick Conaty, The Resilience Imperative: Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy, New Society Publishers, →ISBN, page 134:

     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 […]

   • 2018, Stefan Mann, Socioeconomics of Agriculture, Springer, →ISBN, page 76:

     Consumers who were unhappy with mainstream retailers and an agricultural policy that gave contradictory signals to farmers and society started forming Teikei (Kondoh 2015).

Further reading

• teikei on Wikipedia.Wikipedia