There was a lot to be angry about in Spring 2025; from Defra’s abrupt closure of the SFI scheme and the ongoing struggle of food producers to make a decent living, to rising inequality and continued attempts by the far-right to hijack UK farming.
On April 26th 2025, we brought together farmers, growers, food system workers, migrant farmworkers, food and climate justice activists, and anyone who felt they have a stake in the UK’s food system to march in London under the banner ‘Food In Our Hands’.
Why were we marching?
We marched to build a unified antifascist, antiracist progressive front within the food and farming sector, and to demand the systemic transformation of our food system underpinned by a Right to Food.
What were our demands?
Watch the film
Huge thanks to Reel News for capturing everything on the day and producing this wonderful film.
Support the ‘Food In Our Hands’ Movement!
‘Food In Our Hands’ is a collective struggle to transform the UK’s food system – from field to fork. Our mission is to build a powerful, diverse and anti-oppressive movement for food sovereignty in the UK, to reclaim food as a basic human right and heal our relationship to the land, and to stand up for the livelihoods of farmers, landworkers and food system workers.
Here’s four ways you can take action to support Food In Our Hands:
- Write to your MP and ask them to support the Food In Our Hands demands. Click here to access our template letter.
- Write to your MP asking them to support a legally enshrined Right to food in UK law. Click here to access our template letter.
- Sign the petition for a bigger nature-friendly farming budget. Click here to add your name.
- Sign the open letter to Daniel Zeichner (Minister of Food Security and Rural Affairs) asking him to explore a basic income for farmers and farmworkers. Click here to sign.
You can keep up to date on Instagram by following @foodinourhandsuk
Illustrations by Tamara-Jade Kaz
