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Associations, campaigns, organisations |
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| Campaign for Real Farming | campaign for “Farming that is expressly designed to provide everyone everywhere with food of the highest quality, forever, without wrecking the rest of the world” |
| College for Real Farming & Food Culture | ‘A complete re-think of agriculture and all that goes with it’ |
| Crofting Commission | regulates and promotes the interests of crofting in Scotland to secure the future of crofting |
| Ecological Land Co-op | articles on the economics of smallholding |
| Landworkers’ Alliance | The UK equivalent of La Via Campesina, LWA is an organisation of farmers, growers and land-based workers campaigning for policies to support small farm livelihoods, building alliances and encouraging solidarity. |
| One Planet Council | independent voluntary body which enables and promotes One Planet Development i.e. gaining planning permission and the right to live and work on your own land (Wales) |
| Scottish Crofting Federation | protecting and promoting the interests of crofters and the crofting community. |
| Small Plot, Big Ideas | list of smallholder associations in the UK |
Resources for smallholders |
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| Accidental Smallholder | exploits of a smallholding couple in Scotland |
| Farm Hack | worldwide community of farmers providing open source knowledge and tools |
| Farming Records UK | agricultural and accounting record books |
| Green Shifters | Smallholdings to sell, buy, rent or swap |
| Organic Research Centre | Elm Farm – wealth of information for organic smallholders |
| Smallholding-Wales | buying and selling smallholdings in Wales |
| UK Agroecology Research | overview of research on ecological agriculture in the UK, compiled by the Ecological Land Co-op |
| UK Land & Farms | search for land in the UK |
| WWOOF UK | matches volunteers with organic farms and smallholdings |
Small farms feed more people |
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| Agecon: Research in Agricultural and Applied Economics | productivity of large v small farms (small more productive) |
| the Ecologist | want to double world food production? Return the land to small farmers |
| FAO | putting family farmers first to eradicate hunger |
| Global Research | the destructive impacts of industrial agriculture |
| GRAIN | small farmers feed the world with less than a quarter of all farmland |
| Scientific American | myths about modern agriculture |
| Small is Bountiful | smallholdings produce more food per acre than large farms |
| UNCTAD | ‘Wake Up Before It’s Too Late’. UN report: smallholdings produce more food, more sustainably, than industrial agriculture |
