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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Scotland Consultations

Agricultural Transition & Local Food Strategy 2021

What’s the Issue?

The Scottish Government is consulting on a new Agriculture Bill for Scotland – to be expected by 2023. The expectations for the new law are mixed. On the one hand side, the consultation aims to gather views on a successor for the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) “that will guide farming, food production and land use for many years to come”. On the other hand, the SNP has committed to staying in tune with the CAP.
At the same time as the agricultural subsidy consultation, the Scottish Government has also launched a consultation for a new ‘Local Food Strategy’, which would aim to make high quality food accessible to all and promote the benefits of local food.
Getting more clarity on the direction of agricultural and food policy in Scotland is needed and, in this sense, the two consultations are welcome. However, both consultations are failing to make clear connections between agricultural subsidies and a strategy for local food. Also, they are lacking fundamental questions on the objectives and priorities for agriculture and food policy, and, in particular, on the kind of food system that we want to see and support in Scotland.

What are we doing?

After the launch of our Manifesto for Change, the Landworkers’ Alliance has been lobbying the Scottish Government and Parliament for agriculture and food policies that put climate, biodiversity and equity and justice at their core. For example, we have hosted several farm visits with politicians, we have sought to boost the agroecological agenda within our coalitions (Scottish Food Coalition, Scottish Environment LINK) and, in September, we spoke to the Rural Affairs, Islands and Natural Environment Committee of Scottish Parliament.
We have submitted detailed responses to the two consultations and our submissions can be found here:

How can you help?

Both the  ‘Agricultural Transition’ and ‘Local Food for Everyone’ consultations are now closed, however if you have any questions about the consultations, our responses, or our policy and lobbying work in Scotland, please contact our Policy and Campaigns Coordinator Miranda: miranda.geelhoed@staging.landworkersalliance.org.uk

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