Land activism UK news

• The UK’s food system is broken. A green new deal for agriculture could be revolutionary, theconversation.com (Feb 28, 2025)
• Delivering better outcomes with a Multifunctional Land Use Framework, Sue Pritchard, ffcc.co.uk (Jan 28, 2025) — "Through our long-term trials we have seen how keen people are to engage in and work through the complex and messy problems. We’ve seen... communities working with planners to design places with attractive, affordable, sustainable homes where people want to live and work."
• Frome residents win five-year battle for community-led housing project, theguardian.com (Jan 23, 2025) — “What’s really exciting for me is that it’s not actually about the amount of commercial space or the affordable housing it will provide – it’s about the sense of confidence and agency and possibility that I think it will give us as a community.” Fiona Barrows, Frome town councillor

• Keeping up with the policies. FFCC’s Georgie Barber on why we need land use coherence, ffcc.co.uk (Dec 04, 2024)
• Wildlife Trusts buy Rothbury estate in largest land sale in England in 30 years, theguardian.com (Oct 29, 2024)
• ‘No gear, all the ideas’: the farming collective offering up land to sustainable businesses, positive.news (Oct 28, 2024)
• Who owns Norfolk? It's an extraordinary story of mostly very, very old inherited wealth. But the digital mapping would benefit any area, Daily Alternative (Oct 18, 2024)
• The Scottish Gaelic concept of Dúthchas urges that people and nature are deeply entangled. Let it guide the path to land reform, Daily Alternative (Feb 25, 2024)
• The community buyout projects leading Scotland’s self-help revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 01, 2024)

• Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Apr 21, 2023)

• A community-buyout in the South of Scotland has taken land from the Duke of Buccleuch, and pointed it towards rewilding, The Daily Alternative (Oct 17, 2022)
• Local Groups Celebrate Achievements In Community Land Week, Community Land Scotland (Oct 07, 2022)
• We call for land strategy and new planning rules to guard food security, CPRE (Jul 20, 2022) — There’s been a hundred-fold increase in our best farmland lost to development in little more than a decade, new CPRE research has found. And 60% of our finest agricultural land is at risk of flooding. As a result, we’re telling government we need a land strategy and new planning rules to safeguard our food security
• These Scottish villagers bought a nature reserve - now they are fundraising to double its size, euronews.com (Jun 10, 2022)
• If we use this website to identify our "Assets of Community Value", communities will exert more power over local land, The Alternative UK (Feb 19, 2022)
• How community ownership can secure the UK’s food security through buying family farms, Stir to Action (Feb 03, 2022) — How a national crisis of family-owned farms presents an opportunity for a new generation of community owners

• A startling UK map showing how much we use land for animal agriculture - and how much solar is crowded out, Jan 24, 2022...thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative

• The new enclosure: how land commissions can lead the fight against urban land-grabs, Dec 9, 2021...^[1]
• Just 124 people own most of England's deep peat – its largest carbon store, Nov 15, 2021...^[2]

"With land we can" - a story that can break our passive, resigned relationship to land, from Future Narratives Lab and Shared Assets, Sep 21, 2021...^[3]

• What would a "new land contract" for the UK—written from scratch with fairness in mind—actually look like? Can we do some of it straightaway?^[4] "If we really want to prevent climate collapse, renew our society and build a successful, prosperous market economy, we will need to fix this obsolete right of extraction that is coded into the foundations of our soc…"  Jun 25, 2020.

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