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@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@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@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@landworkersalliance.org.uk

Merchandise/calendar Enquiries

For any enquiries to do with shop sales including the calendar please email merchandise@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@landworkersalliance.org.uk with the word ‘urgent’ in the subject header and we will do our best to help.

Follow Us

Stop the Deregulation of Gene Editing

(2021 - ongoing)

What’s the Issue?

Since Brexit, the UK Government has pursued legislation which would ease restrictions on the genetic engineering of plants and animals destined for our food system. On May 25th 2022 the government announced a new Gene Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill to put legilsation in place that would allow for the deregulation of GMOs created using presicion breeding gene-editing techniques, such as CRISPR. These new gene technologies are supposed to allow for targeted changes to DNA, giving plants, animals, and other organisms specific traits such as disease resistance. We’re concerned that this piece of legislation will impact the rights of our members and other farmers and food producers to save seed, to make informed choices about the crops they are growing, while also leading to adverse impacts on farm biodiversity.

What are we doing?

On 7th January 2021, DEFRA launched an online consultation on the regulation of gene technologies and, notably, the technique of ‘gene editing’. You can read our response here.

On June 15th 2022 we released a statement in response to the new Gene-Editing Bill, which you can read here.

We have also signed a joint statement with 30 other food and farming organisations urging MPs to make the necessary amendments to the Bill to ensure the safety and protection of farmers, consumers and the environment.

 

What can I do?

Click here to email Your MP using Beyond GM’s online platform and template letter and ask them to make the necessary changes to the Bill.

 

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