Calling all community gardeners and growers, people working on food sovereignty, land rights and towards more resilient and just food systems! We face many intersecting crises that have the same root causes – and yet we often remain siloed in our social movements.
This training will explore why and how to come together to create more solidarity and strength across those working for food and land justice in the UK. The training will identify strategically impactful connections, learn about hegemonic power structures and narratives, and how we can adapt in a complex political landscape. Let's explore together how to gain land rights and how to create resilient and just food systems that will rise to meet the demands of a changing climate and society.
During this three-day course, you will:
- Map your place and that of other organisations within your context to identify the most useful connections
- Work on strategic challenges and opportunities you and your organisation are currently facing, and plan how to evaluate your interventions
- Learn about theories of change and discover methods for adapting to the complex world we live in
- Up your strategy game by seeing your movement as a complex, living, dynamic ecosystem
- Reflect on how the identities we hold can enrich or limit us
- Make power structures visible and explore the narratives that hold them together
- Explore the constraints of the systems you want to influence, and generate tangible interventions
In addition to diving into theory and practical exercises, you'll have the opportunity to connect with other change-makers and build new relationships. Join and become part of a community working together for food and land justice and, more broadly, for system change!
Who is this course for?
- Community gardeners and growers
- People working on food sovereignty and more resilient and just food systems
- People working on access to land and land rights
- Activists, campaigners, organisers, academics – change-makers of all kinds
- For this course to be helpful, you must already be working on a project. It's OK if its early stages of that project, but you should have a clear outline of what the vision and goals of the project are.
Cost
This workshop is given in the spirit of the solidarity economy, so that it can be made available and accessible for everyone.
- £250 – Solidarity: A subsidised fee for those with less financial means. This is the fee for small organisations.
- £500 – Full cost: How much it costs for us to provide a place on this course. This is the fee for medium organisations.
- £750 – Redistribution: An opportunity for those with more financial means to support solidarity places. This is the fee for large organisations.