The Land Issue, Summer 2009 This article written by Simon Fairlie, a farmer and writer, and published in 2009 describes in-depth the historical process of enclosures and its current effects on agriculture and on rural areas. While, Hardin in its… Read More »A Short History of Enclosure in Britain
Following on from the 2019 report Reviving County Farms in England (accesstoland.eu), CPRE, the countryside charity for England, in collaboration with the New Economics Foundation and Shared Assets have published an inspiring new report ‘Reimagining council farms: a vision for 2040’. Analysing… Read More »Reimagining council farms: a vision for 2040
Reflections on recent work between Shared Assets and Eco Ruralis – By Kim Graham, Shared Assets Eco Ruralis and Shared Assets are amongst the 18 partners across Europe currently working on the RURALIZATION project (2019-2023), funded by Horizon 2020 to explore the opening of rural… Read More »On Common Ground
4 documentaries on Land Machtching Platforms What is a Land Matching Platform? Here is not an answer but several. In the frame of a European project we met persons involved in different projects. Come an meet them, here and now.… Read More »Land Matching Platforms in Europe
December 2019 by Kim Graham, Shared Assets A new report, ‘Reviving County Farms’, has been published by CPRE, the countryside charity for England, in collaboration with the New Economics Foundation, Who Owns England?, and Shared Assets. Owned by local authorities,… Read More »Reviving County Farms in England
By Ruth West, Real Farming Trust The UK’s exit from the EU means no more CAP, and in its place a whole new legislative framework for replacement agricultural support schemes including separate legislation for the devolved countries of Scotland, Wales… Read More »Agroecology Finds Its Way into England’s Post-Brexit Agriculture Bill
Mobilising to save a County Farm! By Jessie Buchanan Trecadwgan Farm, a County Farm belonging to Pembrokeshire County Council (PCC) is up for sale – again. Since June 2019 when plans for its sell-off were announced by PCC, it has… Read More »Trecadwgan Farm, to be sold by Public Auction on March 4th 2020
July 2019 The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufacturers and Commerce’s (RSA) Food, Farming and Countryside Commission has recently published its findings in a new UK report. Set up in 2017, the Commission’s review has been one of… Read More »Our future in the land
February 2017 This paper by Real farming trust elaborates the access to land issue in the UK for the new entrants. The dairy sector has been facing a lot of challenges leading to shutting down of many dairies. However, the UK is… Read More »Small scale farming and land access: Micro-dairies in the UK
March 2017 The Soil Association has been training new organic farmers in the UK for nearly a decade with their Future Grower scheme. This paper explains how the market gardens have become important in the access to land debate. Market gardens… Read More »Access to land and small market gardens in the UK