Small-scale and community farmers often feel overlooked in debates about agricultural policy -- despite the fact that they create employment, farm in ways that protect landscapes, and provide a huge amount of the food we eat.
Like many other organisations, they want their voices to be heard in the discussion about what direction food and farming policy should take now that Britain has voted to leave the EU.
As a starting point, the Landworkers' Alliance has produced a 'Framework for British Agriculture'. Its priorities are to protect domestic food production, reform the subsidy system so that it does not penalise small-scale producers, create and maintain decently paid jobs, and improve environmental and animal welfare standards.
Over the next six months, the LWA intends to carry out an in-depth consultation among its members, and will adapt its policy proposal according to what it finds out. It will also work with other organisations to draw up a ‘Peoples’ Food Policy’, to address the 'systemic inequalities and misguided policies' currently afflicting the food and farming sectors.
Read ‘More Farmers, Better Food – A framework for British Agricultural Policy’ here.
Find out more about Sustain's policies for a greener, fairer food system here.
Sustain: Sustain The alliance for better food and farming advocates food and agriculture policies and practices that enhance the health and welfare of people and animals, improve the working and living environment, enrich society and culture and promote equity.
