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A central area of development in the TEIKEI Agora addresses the question of how communities can support their supply not only organizationally but also financially on a collective basis.
To this end, tools for contribution rounds are being prepared and programmed in the Agora. They create the foundation for shifting the focus away from fixed prices per harvest share and toward enabling a community to collectively bear the basic costs of their supply in a spirit of solidarity.
In many of today’s ordering systems, the primary focus is on the individual price per product. The collective foundations of supply often remain invisible or are only indirectly supported.
Contribution rounds in the Agora aim to enable a different approach.
The goal is for a community not only to distribute products but also to consciously address the costs that make their shared supply possible in the first place. Depending on the context, these may include coordination, storage, distribution, organizational support, digital infrastructure, or other shared tasks.
Functions are being developed to digitally map and collectively organize solidarity-based contribution models.
These include, among others:
Contribution rounds in the Agora are not created as an isolated calculator but as a cyclical process.
In the first step, the needs within a community are made visible. This includes which harvest shares, product groups, and quantities are actually requested or required within a year.
After the end of a year, an evaluation can be made of the costs associated with this demand. This is not just about individual product prices but about the entire foundation necessary to enable this demand collectively.
Based on this, a contribution round can be prepared in the next step.
The process may look like this in the future:
The contribution calculator is thus not the first step but part of a later contribution round. It supports orientation within a collective decision-making process.
For members, the contribution round should be designed to be understandable and traceable.
To this end, the Agora can prospectively display:
A contribution calculator can help make reference values visible. This may also include income-based orientation, for example, as a recommendation for what contribution might be sustainable in relation to one’s own financial situation.
The decision remains part of the contribution round. Members collectively contribute to ensuring that the basic costs of supply are covered.
Direct debit is planned as the standard for processing. This allows recurring contributions to be reliably organized without incurring unnecessary payment fees.
Contribution rounds are not intended solely for classic vegetable harvest shares.
Prospectively, all products assigned to the harvest share category within the Agora can be included in such a collective contribution model.
Depending on the community, these may include:
The decisive factor is not the individual purchase of a product but the question of which supply a community wants to enable and support collectively.
With these tools, supply in the Agora can gradually move closer to a solidarity-based logic.
This means: Not every burden must rest directly on the individual harvest share; instead, a community can learn to collectively bear its shared foundations. This creates new opportunities for stability, transparency, and accessibility.
In the long term, this can also help to:
Contribution rounds are therefore not just a financing tool. They are a building block for a different culture of participation, in which supply is not merely purchased but collectively enabled.
In the TEIKEI Agora, these tools are thus developed as part of participation, roles, and governance.
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Created on April 1, 2026 · Last updated on October 10, 2026
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