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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Food In Our Hands

Building the UK Food Sovereignty Movement

Building the UK Food Sovereignty Movement

What’s the issue?

The dominant economic model that shapes the food system in the UK and beyond is inherently violent. This is because its foundations were built with the intention of pursuing profit and enhancing corporate control rather than actually feeding people. This industrial-scale intensive way of producing food has brought us to a situation where our natural resources are depleting, biodiversity is in rapid decline, millions are dependent on food banks for survival, our collective health is suffering, and international trade deals continue to deliberately reinforce neo-colonial control over the Majority World. 

Many movements across the world have mobilised effectively to combat these injustices, yet in the UK, the political and social narrative on food justice remains frustratingly limited to merely increasing the provision of food banks. In the UK we have so many incredible organisations working towards building food security and food sovereignty, but what we lack is a cohesive movement to bring us all together and contextualise our current food system against a backdrop of capitalism, colonialism, and the multiple forms of oppression upon which it feeds.

What are we doing?

Food In Our Hands is a movement of movements. By partnering with organisations and individuals who are engaged in the struggle to transform our food system and who advocate for food sovereignty, we are working to put food – both metaphorically and literally – back in our hands.

In 2022 we hosted an educational webinar series exploring the different aspects of food sovereignty.

In September we organised the 2022 People’s Food Summit, bringing together people and organisations from across the food and farming sector to strengthen the UK food sovereignty movement. You can read more about the Summit here.

What can you do?

There are many ways you can support the movement. 

If you’re interested in organising with us, please fill out this form and we will be in touch shortly. 

You can also stay up to date by following us on Instagram (@foodinourhandsuk), Twitter (@foodinourhands), or subscribing to our newsletter here.

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