Landworkers' Alliance
UK-wide alliance of farmers, foresters and land-based workers. Working to defend our members’ interests and build a better food & land use system for all.
landworkersalliance.org.uk
- The Landworkers’ Alliance stands in firm solidarity with the people of Rojava and condemns the actions of the Syrian regime whose attacks threaten not only the Kurdish resistance but the existence of the Kurdish people themselves. Full statement: landworkersalliance.org.uk/lwa-stands-i...
- Reposted by Landworkers' Alliance📣ECVC reaction on the EU-Mercosur FTA vote following farmers protests in Liège, Brussels, France, Greece and other European countires this week! #StopEUMercosur #CAP #Farmersprotests #Brussels
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceHarnessing horticulture to solve the health crisis #ORFC26 Bee Laughton Landworkers' Alliance Anna Taylor The Food Foundation Lily Farmer #Mazi, Joanna Poulton (Sims Hill Shared Harvest)
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- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceJoin our webinar to explore how trees can boost productivity, improve welfare & provide valuable fodder. 🌳 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/agroforestry-and-… In partnership with Coed Cadw/The Woodland Trust
- Solidarity is not a crime ✊ LWA AND CETIM SUCCESSFULLY CALL FOR UN INTERVENTION ON BEHALF OF HUNGER STRIKERS 🇵🇸 Read our full update here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/soliarity-is... @cetim-cetim.bsky.social
- Come and see us at ORFC! Jan 8th -9th in Oxford 🌾 This year we will have a table in the Exhibition Hall, as well as another exciting programme of sessions ...including our collaborations with La Via Campesina. Full in-person programme here: orfc.org.uk/orfc-2026-in... @orfc.bsky.social
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- 🚜 To coincide with @landmatchengland.bsky.social's new website launch, we've published a new policy brief making the case for a publicly funded National Land Matching Service for England. Read it here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/wp-content/u...
- 🍿LWA FILM CLUB IS BACK WITH A BELTER🍿 This month you can screen the wonderful 'Gaucho Gaucho' from the comfort of your home. Click the link below to find out more about the film and watch the *brilliant* trailer. tinyurl.com/5n8puu77
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- LWA response to the 'Good Food Cycle' National Food Strategy 🍅 tinyurl.com/48m325w3
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- A message to all members of the Landworkers' Alliance from @freedomflotilla.bsky.social vessel ‘Handala’: “We as landworkers, we as La Via Campesina, we have always been in solidarity with Palestine. Stop the genocide, stop the killings, stop using starvation and famine as a weapon of war.”
- Here's a little peak into the Land Skills Fair, put together by folk who were there last time out 👀 Just one more week until we gather again 🎪 🪕🎙️🪓💃🏽🕺🏼 🎫 you can get your tickets here: tinyurl.com/42nuxb8r Footage: @eoghanmcd @nononanadeg Edit: @alfievideocreator Poem: Sonny the Sunshine Bard
- Sign the petition here: tinyurl.com/3x8s35wp Write to your MP here: tinyurl.com/622d42jf
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceLooking forward to our first time performing at @landworkersuk.bsky.social Land Skills Fair, which we've heard so many good things about. Find out more via landworkersalliance.org.uk/events/land-...
- Only 10 more days until we are together in Glastonbury for this year’s Land Skills Fair. There are still a few tickets remaining including: - a small number of solidarity tickets at a much reduced rate - a small number of BPOC solidarity tickets www.tickettailor.com/events/lwa/1...
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceBeyond GM has sent a pre-action letter to Defra Secretary of State Steve Reed, putting the government on notice that we intend to pursue a judicial review of the Genetic Technology Regulations 2025. Read more and DONATE to our @CrowdJusticeUK funder NOW. crowdjustice.com/case/stop-hi...
- Reposted by Landworkers' Alliance"As landworkers, we understand where monoculture gets us, and we know the importance of diversity; in our seeds, in our crops, in the fields and on the farmlands and including those who work them. "
- Farming is under threat from the far right. In this blog, we introduce 'HOOF', a group formed by LWA members who are organising against fascism in farming. We've a much richer story to tell than their barren, homogenous vision of a future... tinyurl.com/spzz6ty8
- Farming is under threat from the far right. In this blog, we introduce 'HOOF', a group formed by LWA members who are organising against fascism in farming. We've a much richer story to tell than their barren, homogenous vision of a future... tinyurl.com/spzz6ty8
- 🌳 Have you read 'Share The Land' yet? Our report models several scenarios for an agroecological #LandSharing approach to land use. Our conclusion? W/ the right trade policy, dietary changes & approach to land use, we can source the majority of our food via domestic agroecological local food webs.
- Read the report: landworkersalliance.org.uk/wp-content/u...
- 🍉 FARMERS AGAINST FORCED STARVATION 🍉 An open letter to the people of Gaza, with love. As farmers and food producers who dedicate our lives to producing food, we cannot stand by in complicit silence as the people of Gaza are forcibly starved. Add your name: tinyurl.com/3nvbaa2w
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceToday, we joined the @landworkersuk.bsky.social #FoodInOurHands march to demand change. The system isn’t working — we need a fair food system that puts people & planet first. Read more in our new article ⬇️ waronwant.org/news-analysi...
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceNature-friendly farmers, food system workers, migrant farmworkers, hospitality workers, consumers, climate & food justice activists marched in #London under the banner ‘Food In Our Hands’ in a protest organised by the Landworkers Alliance @landworkersuk.bsky.social #LandJusticeNow #NoFoodNoFuture
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceTook the banner to the Food in Our Hands @landworkersuk.bsky.social march today, in solidarity with those who grow our food and care for our land, including migrant workers.
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- We stand proudly and firmly with trans people, recognising that the struggle of trans people for life, dignity and justice is our collective struggle to build the kind of world that we want to live in. Read the full statement from Out On The Land, our LGBTQIA+ organising group: tinyurl.com/2x5r88ft
- 🎪 LAND SKILLS FAIR 2025 🎪 Our wondrous summer weekend home for growers, landworkers, foresters, craftspeople, farmers, scientists, activists, healers and change-makers is getting closer! Have you got your tickets yet? You can find out lots more & get your tickets here: 🎫 tinyurl.com/d6kztkw4
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceA more resilient food system must be grounded in local supply chains which benefit farmers, nature and the general public. ▶️ Read our Local Food Growth Plan which identifies 7 key priorities for action www.localfoodplan.org @landworkersuk.bsky.social @ffc-commission.bsky.social
- New Report 📗 Share The Land: Modelling an agroecological land-sharing approach to UK land use. Read it here. 🧵 below... tinyurl.com/bdebxaw2
- 🌱 Our new report, published today, models a vision for land use in the UK which is grounded in an agroecological land-sharing approach to farming and food production, exploring the trade-offs that arise between more localised production, dietary change and meeting climate and biodiversity targets.
- 🚜 To this end, it presents five scenarios which show how UK agricultural land use would vary depending on changes to food imports, diets and the way we farm.
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View full thread🗓️ When? April 19th, 6pm 💻 Where? Online Read more and register for our online Member Consultation Webinar in our blog post,: landworkersalliance.org.uk/an-lwa-visio...
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceWe’ll be taking action with @landworkersuk.bsky.social allies from across the movement, and we need you to be a part of it! For more information please come to one of our zooms and hear why the LWA organised the rally. 💻 Weds 16th April 7pm 💻 Tues 22nd April 7pm (registration links in bio)
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceWe've launched our Local Food Growth Plan – in partnership with @landworkersuk.bsky.social, Pasture For Life, and the @ffc-commission.bsky.social. The report presents a comprehensive pathway for growing the UK's local food sector. Read more ▶️https://www.localfoodplan.org
- 🚜Farming is increasingly at risk of being hi-jacked by the far-right. Now more than ever we need to unite and build a progressive front in UK food and farming. Join the #FoodInOurHands march on April 26th in London: landworkersalliance.org.uk/foodinourhan...
- 🌱The UK needs to have a nature-friendly farming budget big enough to meet the scale of need and make sure small farms get their fair share. Join the #FoodInOurHands march on April 26th in London: landworkersalliance.org.uk/foodinourhan...
- APRIL 26TH | LONDON 🚜 RALLY TO FIX OUR FOOD SYSTEM 🚜 On April 26th 2025, we’ll be bringing together farmers, growers, food system workers, activists and everyone who has a stake in the UK’s food system (yes – that includes you!) to march in London under the banner #FoodInOurHands. Join us! 🧵⬇️
- 🍅 The UK Government is currently consulting on how it should regulate the seeds of new genetically modified organisms (GMOs) The outcome will impact *everyone* who buys seeds - from commercial growers to home gardeners Respond by April 14th: www.gmfreeze.org/2025/03/21/l... @gm-freeze.bsky.social
- APRIL 26TH | LONDON 🚜 RALLY TO FIX OUR FOOD SYSTEM 🚜 On April 26th 2025, we’ll be bringing together farmers, growers, food system workers, activists and everyone who has a stake in the UK’s food system (yes – that includes you!) to march in London under the banner #FoodInOurHands. Join us! 🧵⬇️
- #FoodInOurHands APRIL 26TH | LONDON Why are we marching? 🚜
- Reposted by Landworkers' Alliance▶️ Farmers left in the lurch as DEFRA’s flagship funding scheme abruptly closes. ▶️ Announcement that the Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) scheme has closed leaves 1000s stranded, with no clear opportunities to enter into agri-environmental schemes.
- The recent announcement from Defra that they will no longer be accepting applications for the #SustainableFarmingIncentive has come as a huge blow to our members. You can read our full response here: landworkersalliance.org.uk/defra-announ...
- 🥬 If you're a farmer or grower on 5ha or less in England, please take 5 mins to complete this survey and help us to make SFI work for small farmers and market gardens. ➡️ docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @organicrescent.bsky.social @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @sustainweb.org
- This will be a brilliant couple of days of learning how to go about growing a peri-urban project with OrganicLea. It's part of the brilliant @orfc.bsky.social 'in the field' programme of events.
- In April, join us for two days of dynamic workshops focussed on growing a successful peri-urban project with pioneering workers’ co-operative, OrganicLea. 🎟️ Find out more: orfc.org.uk/orfc-in-the-...
- It's a pivotal time for farming Rachel Reeves is looking for ways to cut gov spending ahead of the next spending review: and the farming budget is in the firing line Join us in signing the @rspb.bsky.social petition for a bigger nature-friendly farming budget! action.rspb.org.uk/page/156168/...
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- 🌱 Agroecology is anti-racist 🌱 For the final video in our series "Agroecology as a Movement" we sit down with Pamela and Paulette from Black Rootz- the UK's first Black-led food growing enterprise- to explore why agroecology has to be rooted in racial justice. vimeo.com/1058509098
- "Movements that instigate real change in a local context have to be grassroots." 🌱 On the fourth day of our ‘Re-Rooting Agroecology’ launch, we’re sharing this clip from our ‘Agroecology as a Movement’ series, which meets the landworkers at Lauriston Farm in Edinburgh. vimeo.com/1058504177
- "The land doesn't discriminate. It doesn't care where you came from, it doesn't care who you are; it doesn't care what pronouns you use. You just exist with it." Agroecology nurtures and celebrates diversity in our land-use systems & also in the communities who practice them. vimeo.com/1057570775
- "We think that land is much too important to be left in the hands of a few people. The whole community of people own the land..." As part of our campaign to Re-Root Agroecology, visit some of our members- including Tyddyn Teg- to hear why agroecology is anti-capitalist. tinyurl.com/5eabe56m
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceAgroecology is not just a way of farming - it's also a social movement and site of political struggle, working to dismantle systems of oppression and exploitation, promoting the autonomy of producers. Spot on from Landworkers' Alliance 👇 landworkersalliance.org.uk/rerootingagr...
- "The agroecology movement is grassroots led." As part of our campaign to ‘Re-Root Agroecology’ we’re proud to share with you this video which we’ve created with Black Bark Films as part of our forthcoming ‘Agroecology as a Movement’ Political Education Curriculum. Watch here: tinyurl.com/27yua39k
- Reposted by Landworkers' AllianceAgroecology - antifacist farming ✊🏽
- Agroecology is not just a way of farming - it's also a social movement and site of political struggle, working to dismantle systems of oppression and exploitation, promoting the autonomy of producers. Spot on from Landworkers' Alliance 👇 landworkersalliance.org.uk/rerootingagr...
