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

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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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Cultivating Justice

CULTIVATING JUSTICE

The cultivating justice project has technically come to an end although threads of the work and ongoing collaborations will be supported by funding from Farming the Future, so the organisations involved will continue to work together and carry forward the aims of the project.

Cultivating Justice was a project coordinated by 3 grassroots organisations: Land In Our Names (LION), the LandWorkers Alliance LGBTQIA+ working group, and Farmerama. The project intended to build lasting mobilisation and justice for marginalised communities who are resisting colonial, patriarchal and imperialist food/farming systems. Specifically, Cultivating Justice aimed to: 

  • Amplify stories of marginalised communities (such as BPOC and LGBTQIA+ people, women) – present and past – engaged in farming, food, nature and land justice. 
  • Create opportunities for joy, celebration and growth within our communities and networks.
  • Challenge conventional stereotypes of who farms / what farming looks like by uplifting stories and creating new narratives.
  • Facilitate opportunities for us (as marginalised people, organisations and allies) to build solidarity and shared visions, in order to organise direct responses to systemic social injustices within food and farming systems.  

The project was developed through a series of creative works and movement-building events, including zine co-creation and publication, podcast production, community gatherings, and workshops at food/farming events. 

Through the project we aimed to address inequalities in agroecology which affected us and our communities. Key professions related to land work in Britain (agriculture, horticulture and environment sectors) all have over 90% white British employees. Large disparities also exist in land ownership and access to green spaces, with communities under the ‘BAME’ umbrella being 60% less likely than their white counterparts to be able to access green spaces and natural environments (Natural England). 

Three of the groups most-affected by these disparities are black people and people of colour (BPOC), LGBTQIA+ people, and women. Women are doing 43% of global agricultural labour, and their work is fundamental in developing agroecology. Despite this, women in agriculture receive lower salaries, fewer training opportunities, and are less likely to access land as individuals. Far-right groups have historically enjoyed high levels of support in rural areas, a factor of rural life which often puts ethnic, gender and sexual minority groups at risk.

The struggle for gender equality in farming cannot be separated from the global reality of violence against women and LGBTQIA+ communities. This includes widespread political, economic and social discrimination, all of which impact individuals’ access to food, as well as the land on which to grow it. 

With Cultivating Justice, we also addressed the lack of BPOC and queer support networks within all sectors of agriculture. The phrase ‘you cannot be what you cannot see’ (Marian Wright Edelman) is relevant: in the absence of adequate representation and role models, it is difficult for many people to imagine a land-based livelihood. Actively building support networks and uplifting stories from marginalised groups will play an essential role in enabling imagination. 

Read the Land Workers zine and listen to the podcast here:

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