A housing cooperative, or co-op, is a legal entity, usually a corporation, which owns real estate, consisting of one or more residential buildings; it is one type of housing tenure.
An alternative to leasing farmland is custom farming. The. custom operator agrees to perform all the machine opera-. tions on the ownerâs land in exchange for a set fee or rate. The landowner pays for all seed, chemicals, and other in-. puts, and keeps all of the crop and commodity payments.
Collective farming and communal farming are various types of agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise. That type of collective is often an agricultural cooperative in which member-owners jointly engage in farming activities. The process by which farmland is aggregated is called collectivization. In some countries, there have been state-run and cooperative-run variants. For example, the Soviet Union had both kolkhozy and sovkhozy, often denoted