Farming the Future 2025: the funded collaborations

1.      Landmatch England: Nourish and Diversify -£70,000

Partners: CSA Network, Landworkers Alliance, Shared Assets, Tamar Grow Local, Pathways to Land BPOC collective

Nourishing and embedding the growth of Landmatch England through ensuring it meets user needs, especially those most marginalised, as widely and as deeply as possible.

2.      Moving Together - Weaving the Agroecological Movement in Northern Ireland- £70,000

Partners: Co-operative Alternatives, Ben Vista CSA

Cultivating an agroecological future grounded in solidarity, reciprocity, and collaborative power through storytelling, convening, and radical collaboration in Northern Ireland.

3. Resilient Infrastructure for a Successful Emergence in the UK’s Grain Economy- £70,000

Partners: Gaia Seed Sovereignty Programme, UK Grain Lab, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR)

This project will develop the foundations of an agroecological grain system by establishing a ‘Community of Practice’ that tackles key challenges relating to diversity and inclusion, organisational co-design, and mobilisation of knowledge, whilst building and supporting the national movement of people working regionally in local networks across England, Scotland and Wales.

4. Creating and Connecting a policy  Basic Income for farmers working group- £12,000

Partners: Basic Income for Farmers, Propagate, LWA

Convene a collaborative working group to develop and promote a basic income for farmers policy in Scotland, supporting climate action and rural resilience whilst promoting agroecology and operating within Scotland's unique farming context and challenges.

5. Growing Routes to Market for the Local Food Sector- £35,000

Partners: Sustain, Sustainable Food Trust, LWA

Convene and connect relevant organisations to implement the Local Food Growth Plan through the development of 3 collaborative projects/campaigns that build routes to market focused on infrastructure, procurement and other policy priorities.

6. Bridging the Urban-Rural divide- £35,000

Partners: Community Food Growers Network, LWA southeast membership group

Addressing the gap between urban and rural food growing, to diversify the grassroots agroecological farming movement, through a mutual exchange of knowledge, praxis and skills between community food growers in London and farms across South East England.

7. Strategy for the Food, Farming, and Land Movement- £50,000

Partners: Shared Assets, Sustain, Real Farming Trust, Food Ethics Council, Social Farms and Gardens, Pathways for Land BPOC collective, Solidarity Across Land Trades (SALT), Emergent Generation, CSA Network

Building a more collaborative, strategic, and engaged movement focussing on building a strategy for collaboration, sharing resources, and building collective power.