Emerging Strands

These are areas of collaboration that UAC is exploring, developing or actioning with our partners:

Click here for our guiding report: Future directions for Urban Agroecology: Ten Game Changers 2025 – 2030 (Feb 2025)

  • Landed Community Kitchens (LCK). For more on the research project, see www.urbanfoodjustice.org
    LCKs are vital infrastructure for a just, nutritious and resilient food system. They are one of the eight Building Blocks of an Agroecological Urbanism. A Landed Community Kitchen is a social justice-based Kitchen-Farmer coalition linking urban communities to their productive hinterland to end food poverty and build community. Building on an exploratory workshop in Leeds (Feb 2024), we are now working with CAWR /Coventry University, the CSA Network, Real Farming Trust, and Regather (Sheffield) to expand and explore the LCK model across eight northern cities and towns. Funding is secured for two years from September 2024. Thanks to Farming the Future.

    Landed Kitchen partners are: Cooperation Hull, Regather in Sheffield, Kirkstall Valley and Meanwood Valley Urban Farms and Hyde Park Source in Leeds, Grow & Graze and The Outback in Calderdale/Halifax, Food Futures / LESS in Lancaster, Northern Lily in Oldham/Manchester and Ecoworks in Nottingham.
  • Pathways for an Agroecological Urbanism (PAU!). For more on the research project, see www.urbanfoodjustice.org
    UAC has long been inspired by this body of work on Agroecological Urbanism, Permaculture, and the work of the Landworkers Alliance. Now, we have funding to work together for a year (from Oct 2024) to understand better the institutional barriers to upscaling urban and peri-urban agroecology. We’re using the frames / lenses of the Food Zones model and Agroecological Urbanism to assess how the food system work in the city regions of Bristol and Leeds is progressing, what institutional barriers need addressing, and how the barriers might be overcome.
  • We Are Avon. Bioregioning for abundant and healthy food, water, nature and people. www.weareavon.com
    Initiated by Middle Ground Growers CSA outside Bath, this collaborative project looks at the landscape of the bioregion and the role we who live here can play in its future health. Crowdfunder and Avon pilgrimage walk coming shortly!