Delegates to this year’s Oxford Farming Conference — the annual conference for Britain’s farming elite — were greeted by about 50 members and supporters of the Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA), as they entered the venue on January 7. The th... read more
Call for actions of the European Coordination Via Campesina FOR the rights of farmers to use and freely exchange their seeds and breeding animals, and to have unrestricted access to all available crop diversity AGAINST patents on living organisms, and con... read more
Press Release For immediate release: 20.01.14 Location: European Parliament, Brussels Farmers Rights to Seeds and breeds under threat! Today, the Landworkers’ Alliance mobilise alongside 27 other European farmers’ organizations during the agricultural... read more
Today members of the Landworkers Alliance joined the International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside (ICPPC) in delivering a hamper of “Illegal Foods” to the Polish Embassy in London. They protested to highlight the excessively harsh regulat... read more
Press Release For immediate release: 10.04.14 Starts: A new British farmers’ union opposed to the stranglehold of big business over agricultural policy will be protesting outside the Head offices of the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Aff... read more
Brussels, 21st May 2014 Pan-EU civil society coalition rejects US-EU free trade deal process More than 120 organisations criticise the corporate agenda in the TTIP negotiations With the fifth round of negotiations under way between 19th-23rd... read more
GRAIN/La Via Campesina media release Governments and international agencies frequently boast that small farmers control the largest share of the world’s agricultural land. When the director general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture O... read more
Press Release – Climate of fear among migrant workers in UK agriculture For immediate release – 03/10/2014 New research by ‘la Confédération Paysanne’ and ‘The Landworkers’ Alliance’ has uncovered the negative impact of the British ind... read more
Who produced the food that you are eating? Harsh working conditions for migrant workers in the UK food industry. A blog by Fanny Floremont – researcher from la Confédération Paysanne. This post was initially published on Migrant Voice website Th... read more
Press Release – Growers unite to protect their seeds The Landworkers’ Alliance (LWA) and Soil association (SA) will be launching a Seed Savers’ Network for farmers and growers in the South West this weekend. This regional network will be the fir... read more
