Communitysupported
The term communitysupported is used to describe initiatives and organizations that rely on direct involvement and financial backing from members of a local community rather than solely on market transactions or state funding. The term often denotes cooperative, shared-responsibility models that seek to align producers, consumers, and sometimes workers around a common purpose.
The most widely recognized instance is community-supported agriculture (CSA), where individuals purchase shares of a farm's
Typical structures include member dues or share purchases, volunteer labor, and democratic governance through member assemblies
Benefits commonly cited are strengthened local economies, risk sharing, improved access to goods or services, transparency,
The history of community-supported models traces to cooperative movements in the 19th and 20th centuries, with