The Landworkers’ Alliance is a union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers.

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If you have any comments, critiques, considerations, compliments, complaints, about anything the Landworkers Alliance is or isn’t up to, do let us know your thought. We love feedback, it keeps a system healthy. Please fill in this quick form.

Membership / Supporter / Donation Queries

Please contact Lauren.Simpson@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

Requests for work, volunteering or internships

We are currently not recruiting for any roles but please read our newsletters for any announcements. We currently do not offer any volunteer or internship placements directly with the LWA, but keep an eye out in the newsletter or on the forum for any members looking for volunteers or workers.

Academic/Research Enquiries

Please look at the Agroecology Research Collaboration to see if it fits your area of research/work.

Membership Support / Advice

Currently the LWA does not have capacity or resources to help individual members or potential members on their specific projects, farms or programmes. We get a lot of requests for individual support and would love to have the time to respond to each request in full. We are fundraising for a new role for somebody to focus on membership support and services as we have identified it is a gap in our offering so please watch this space. Having said that, if your query is critical and urgent please email info@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk including the word URGENT in the subject header and it will get picked up and we can try our best to help.

Contacting Individual Staff

Please take the time to explore our staff page here to see who the most relevant contact for your enquiry is.

Our addresses format is firstname.lastname@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

Please bear in mind we all work part time and have limited capacity to respond to enquiries outside our core areas of work.

You can also find information under the About Us header about branch and regional organising, and identity groups within the LWA membership.

Press/Media Enquiries:

For any queries relating to press please email press@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

Merchandise/calendar Enquiries

For any enquiries to do with shop sales including the calendar please email merchandise@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

To Include an Item in Our Newsletter:

You can fill in this quick form to submit it to be included in the next bulletin/newsletter. The deadline to submit is the end of Friday each week for the following week’s member bulletin. With the same form you can also submit to the monthly non-member newsletter which goes out in the first week of the month.

All Other Enquiries:

For any other enquiries that are URGENT please email info@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk with the word ‘urgent’ in the subject header and we will do our best to help.

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Agroecology Research Collaboration

ABOUT US:

The Agroecology Research Collaboration (ARC) is an initiative developed by the Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA), the Community Supported Agriculture Network UK (CSAN), the Ecological Land Cooperative (ELC), the Organic Growers Alliance (OGA) and Pasture for Life (PFL). We are organisations working within the UK food, farming, forestry and land-use sector with a large membership base of agroecological practitioners.   

As organisations working towards shifting the paradigm around how we produce food and use land, we recognise the important position that research has to play in doing so. ARC is therefore a collective endeavour to support and inform an increasing research interest led by, centring on and meeting the needs of agroecological farmers, growers, foresters and other land-based workers. We work and collaborate with other organisations advocating for change and recognise the potential for strengthening the agroecology movement when our efforts are combined and coordinated. 

 

OUR VALUES: 

Our organisations are committed to building a farming, forestry and land-use system rooted in agroecology and food sovereignty. ARC is founded upon, and steered by, the needs of grassroots organisations and the communities and politics they represent. We strive to engage with research in a manner that is mutually supportive and that furthers the work of the broader movement we operate within. 

 

OUR AIMS:

The Agroecology Research Collaboration aims to: 

  • Represent and further the research needs of agroecological practitioners across the UK. 
  • Develop a network of connections with researchers and research institutes to co-create relevant research that is based on principles of mutual support and exchange. 
  • Build a strong evidence base that demonstrates agroecology as a viable and long term alternative to the current industrial food and land-use system. 
  • Ensure that ARC members, and the wider network of grassroots organisations representing those working in food, farming and forestry, are actively involved in and have an equal stance in developing and steering research agendas. 

 

OUR WORK: 

ARC is guided by a steering group and employs a research coordinator whose work focuses on: 

  • Project development: Coordinating and facilitating the development and delivery of research projects. 
  • Outreach: Developing a network of researchers, organisations and institutions that support the work of ARC.
  • Research dissemination: Creating materials and practices to ensure research is accessible and usable for practitioners and organisations. 

 

HOW TO GET INVOLVED: 

We are acutely aware of the need to access rigorously performed research to further the presence and practice of agroecology within the UK. We also require research evidence to support our policy campaigns work with various government departments and public bodies. However, it is not always possible for our organisations to undertake our own research to investigate and produce data on the necessary topics. We are aware that there is a growing effort within academia to shift the norms around what gets researched, and how, and who sets research agendas. We therefore recognise the interdependence that exists between our organisations and research institutions, and the potential for pushing forward the agroecology movement when our efforts are coordinated.

In light of this, we have created a ‘Research Needs and Priorities’ document to highlight and communicate the topics that we require research evidence on. This document will evolve and be regularly updated as our research needs expand and shift. 

To access the document, please click here

 

JOIN OUR MAILING LIST: 

To join our mailing list please sign up here. 

As a subscriber to our mailing list, you will receive:  

  • The Agroecology Research Collaboration’s newsletter 
  • Invitations to events
  • ‘Research needs in the spotlight’: Agroecology practitioners highlighting a topic that requires research collaboration and focus. 
  • Notification of updates to our ‘Research Needs and Priorities’ document.

 

CONTACT US: 

We are always interested in connecting with individuals and organisations who are working towards building a food and land-use system that is just, sustainable, resilient and healthy for all. Please contact Tara Wight on tara.wight@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk to get in touch with ARC. 

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