Land and inequality

The UK has historically and systematically enacted a series of enclosure acts that favoured wealthy landowners and continuously privatized the land. Consequently, our current system of land ownership favours large landowners, corporations, and commercial agriculture. Almost 2 million hectares of land, or about 10% of Britain, has vanished from public access.

Learn more about the history of land reform in the UK:

Land for the many, not the few.

The UK today faces an urgent imperative to address a myriad of inequalities amidst a global climate emergency - a shortage of affordable housing, rising property and land prices, food insecurity, and unsustainable industrial practices. The issue of land and the way land is owned and managed underlies these inequalities.

How should the land be managed to ensure food security, sustainable agricultural practices, and equitable access to land and housing? Why change the way we produce food?