The Landworkers' Alliance are a UK-based union of farmers, growers, foresters and land-based workers founded in 2015[1] who work together to campaign for better food and land-use systems.
They also work internationally on topics such as food sovereignty through membership of Via Campesina, the International Peasant’s Movement, which represents over 200 million peasants, farmers and land-based workers through 182 member organisations.[2]
They launched a manifesto for tacking rural inequality at the Oxford Real Farming Conference in 2016,[3] and are twinned to US based Farm Hack to bring their model of supporting new farmers to the UK.[4][5]
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- ^ "THE LANDWORKERS' ALLIANCE - Overview (free company information from Companies House)". beta.companieshouse.gov.uk. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- ^ "Europe". Via Campesina. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- ^ Lawrence, Felicity (7 January 2016). "Organic and small-scale: An alternative vision for the future of farming". The Guardian. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- ^ "Profit from your plot: 10 ways to make money from your garden". The Telegraph. 7 June 2015. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
- ^ "FarmHack Comes to the UK". Permaculture Magazine. Retrieved 12 November 2019.