Terre-en-vue (TeV) is a citizen driven cooperative company that facilitates access to land by buying land and leasing it on a long term basis to farmers who conduct agroecological projects. The capital of TeV is entirely based on citizen investment.… Read More »Biodynamic Land Trust
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
Support access to land for new farmers in Scotland The Scottish Farm Land Trust (SFLT) have launched a crowdfunding campaign running until the 29th November to raise £10,000. The money will be used to employ a Development Worker to support SFLT to… Read More »Scottish Farm Land Trust launch their first crowdfunder!