Today members of the Community Food Growers Network 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 regulations imposed upon small Polish farmers which effectively prohibit them from selling traditional foods processed on the…
The Landworkers Alliance of England and Wales Statement on forthcoming negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) Begins: We are a coalition of farmers, growers and landworkers representing the interests of small-scale producers across England and Wales. Our livelihoods are wholly dependent upon resilient local food economies and cultures, as opposed to export…
The Land is Ours have been doing some work on the issues around the Common Agricultural Policy, which coincides with current campaigns by Via Campesina and a host of other producer unions in Europe. Very little has been done on the issues around CAP in the UK, which is crazy because in the UK the…