Projects
These projects, or themed areas of work, have been created through conversations with partners about the needs and challenges they share, and the solutions they want to pursue together.
Ongoing
Northern Farmstarts
A collaboration with the Landworkers Alliance. Existing Farmstarts are teaching northern cities how to set up their own Farmstart projects. Find out more…
Your guide to urban agriculture
A beautiful, illustrated, clickable map. 6 main types of urban agriculture project, many inspiring case studies. This works as a guide for citizens and local authorities to imagine, learn, plan and create. Find out more…
Dynamic Food Procurement
A developing system to enable small and medium sized food producers to supply public sector contracts, and buyers to understand more about the quality and provenance of what they’re buying. Find out more…
Emerging
Influencing Policy
Driven by the Glasgow Food & Climate Declaration, we are supporting partners to look at how they can influence policy. From community access to land for food growing in Northern Ireland to creating a PING. Find out more…
Mapping land for food
Partnering with Lancaster’s Rurban Revolution to map land using the Hope Spots process developed by Friends of the Earth. More information coming soon.
Fringe Farming
An exciting and timely year-long pilot exploring the potential of peri-urban land for agroecology in London, Bristol, Sheffield and Glasgow, coordinated by Sustain. Find out more…
A vision for the West of England
Rediscovering identity, connection, belonging and purpose through investing in a bioregional, agroecological vision of the future. Find out more…
And I told her about the great Hope Spots mapping going on in Lancaster.
So we resolved to bring together these projects, along with Julian of Land Explorer / Shared Assets and colleagues in Wales, to share experiences, approaches and learn from each other.
This is now a UK wide mappers community of practice with contributors from many projects and places, all committed to food sovereignty and open data.
Meeting every few months online, and establishing a project space on Hylo, there is a real excitement to connect with one another to think about how the mapping of land for food could be both bespoke to place and community, and compatible or interconnected.
It was spurred on by our discovery that Knight Frank had mapped all Church of England owned land.
If you’d like to be involved in this, please contact us.
The Urban Agriculture Consortium (UAC) is a pioneering collaboration promoting and enabling the up-scaling of nature-friendly urban & peri-urban agroecology across the UK in direct response to the climate and ecological emergencies. UAC is working to influence practice & policy by developing a community of good practice with a range of pathfinding local and regional food partnerships, local authorities, practitioners, academics and others. We aim to influence & amplify policy level support for agroecological urban farming. UAC was launched in 2020 following several rounds of in-depth consultations with partners and other stakeholders across the UK.