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

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Please contact Lauren.Simpson@landworkersalliance.org.uk

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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.

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

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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@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.

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

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Whole Farm Agroecology Scheme

(2019 - ongoing)

What’s the Issue?

An agroecological transition is vital to ensure that the UK can continue to produce healthy, local, and affordable food for generations to come. 18.5m ha of land under agroecological cultivation has the capacity to produce enough to exceed the UK’s demand, with a population of 70 million, for cereals, dairy, potatoes, fruit and vegetables- and about 85% of meat at current consumption levels.

To realise this, conversion from industrial to agroecological agriculture needs to be promoted through a dedicated a Whole Farm Agroecology Scheme (WFAS). Though the principles of agroecology are straightforward, application of these principles is in practice much harder, requiring careful design of agricultural systems and knowledge of agroecological techniques. Farmers will need substantial support to make the investment necessary to change.

What are we doing?

We are proposing a Whole Farm Agroecology Scheme to be incorporated into the Agriculture Bill./span>

Similar to the way the Countryside Stewardship Scheme works, the Whole Farm Agroecology Scheme would employ advisors to work with farmers to co-design a farm management plan integrating environmental, social and economic agroecological principles according to the farmer’s situation.

The WFAS would be flexible, allowing farmers, of all scales, to co- design suitable techniques. There would be 3 tiers of support, with farms incorporating a minimum number of practices in each tier; the highest incorporating organic certification. The support would consist of training, financial incentives and capital grants. At the top, the scheme would fully cover the costs of organic certification. Organic certification bodies could regulate environmental aspects of the scheme, while incorporating elements of support for social and economic benefits. There would be maintenance payments for those reaching the highest agroecological farming levels.

How can you help?

Please write and/or arrange a meeting with your MP to explain the aims of the campaign to them and ask them to support our amendments in the agriculture bill.

Take to the streets and join our Food, Farming and Climate Justice march in London on the 5th October to demand urgent action.

Arrange Farm walks for MPs and farmers groups to your farm, or other farms around you so they can see first hand the benefits of whole farm agroecological management.