Editing Community-based economics (section)

== Indigenous communities ==

=== Australia ===
Since the 1970s, Indigenous communities in Australia have played leading roles in building procuring community-based services in areas such as local governing; health; housing; as well as welfare.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Morley |first1=Sam |title=What works in effective Indigenous community-managed programs and organisations |date=20 May 2015 |url=https://aifs.gov.au/cfca/publications/what-works-effective-indigenous-community-managed-programs-and-organisations |publisher=Child Family Community Australia}}</ref>

In Australia, a five-year research project called '[https://caepr.cass.anu.edu.au/poc/project-overview People on Country (POC), Healthy Landscapes and Indigenous Economic Futures]' was undertaken by the [https://caepr.cass.anu.edu.au/ Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research] at the [[Australian National University]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kerins |first1=Seán |last2=Jordan |first2=Kirrily |title=Indigenous Economic Development through Community-Based Enterprise |journal=CAEPR Topical Issue No. 06/2010 |date=2010 |url=https://caepr.cass.anu.edu.au/sites/default/files/docs/TI2010_6_Kerins_Jordan_IEDP_0.pdf}}</ref> This project was collaborative in nature, where the University worked with a number of community-based Aboriginal land and sea management groups in northern Australia. Work was carried out on a number of cultural and resource management issues.

=== Malawi ===

Many community-based economies have been seen in the Kasungu district of Malawi. These economies have concerned themselves with the tasks of sustaining agriculture; managing natural resources; facilitating small and medium enterprises; as well as dealing with health problems in their communities such as HIV and AIDS.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mgawanyemba |first1=Gamaliel D |title=Community-based organizations in socio-economic development : the experience of Kasungu district in Malawi |journal=UNISA Institutional Repository |date=2008 |hdl=10500/2759 |url=http://hdl.handle.net/10500/2759}}</ref>

The [https://www.trickleout.net/index.php/directory-pilot/Malawi%20/ngolowindo-cooperative-society Ngolowindo Horticultural Cooperative Society (NHCS)] is one such example of community-based economies at play. It is located in the “Maganga Traditional Authority in the [[Salima District]] of Malawi's Central Regions”. The NHCS includes members from the eleven villages surrounding it and was initially known as the “Ngolowindo Self Help Irrigation Scheme (NSHIS)”.<ref name="hill" /> The NSHIS had seen support from the areas’ indigenous leaders. Apart from seeking to implement subsistence farming, the NHCS deals with generational income issues by focusing on achieving stability at the household level.<ref name="hill" />

=== New Zealand ===
The importance of relationships was seen in the early Māori economy. Concepts such as reciprocity; flexibility; sustainability and sharing (trade) underpinned these relationships. Not only were these relationships regarded as between people, but between people and the physical world, as well as between people and the spiritual world.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schulze |first1=Hillmarè |last2=Hurren |first2=Konrad |last3=Riley |first3=Hannah |title=Case Studies on Advancing Inclusive Economic Growth: Understanding and Valuing Indigenous Economies within APEC |url=https://www.apec.org/docs/default-source/Publications/2021/4/Case-Studies-on-Advancing-Inclusive-Economic-Growth/221_SCE_Case-Studies-on-Advancing-Inclusive-Economic-Growth |publisher=APEC Secretariat}}</ref>