Équiterre

Équiterre
Company typeNGO
IndustryAgriculture management
Founded1992, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
HeadquartersMontreal, Quebec, Canada
Key people
Steven Guilbeault and Sidney Ribaux
Websitewww.equiterre.org

Équiterre is a Canadian non-profit and non-governmental organization, operating in Quebec. It manages a community-supported agriculture system of farms and consumers, including households and institutions.

The non-profit's mission at founding had two main threads: to improve the organic agriculture economy in Quebec through stimulation of consumer demand, and to ensure access of citizens to local organic products through direct support of producing farms.:217

Members of the managed network required abiding by four criteria::217–8

  1. Members would pay in advance to farmers for produce, and farmers would make production for the network their highest priority.
  2. The farmers would use organic farming methods.
  3. The focus would be on local production-consumption.
  4. The creation of a social relation between farmer and consumer.