Reforming land use is crucial to a sustainable society
Rewilding, vegan farming, new social housing, energy crops, more urban green space, solar Farms, nature reserves, growing more fruit and vegetables, bio-dynamic agriculture, tree planting, food production, peatland restoration -…
We need a revolution in food and farming. Only the Greens are offering that.
Image credit: David McDermott - Creative Commons That food, farming and land use have taken up almost no space in the mainstream general election debate in the United Kingdom is…
Rebuilding society from the bottom up
This article is an excerpt from the new book 'Regeneration', which you can buy or download here. The rapid flow of money around the world is good for almost no…
Assessing the Evidence on the ‘Community Right to Buy’
The Land Reform (Scotland) Act, passed by the Scottish Parliament in 2003, provoked both controversy and enthusiasm. Best known for creating Scotland’s ‘Right to Roam’, - the right to responsible…
Prefiguring the kinder society we want
To resist the attempts of those who seek to drag yet more wealth away from ordinary people to fill the coffers of those who brought us the financial crisis, we…
Introducing the Land Issue Part 2: Why it Matters and How it Can Change
“The impact of the land tenure system goes far beyond land use. It influences the size and distribution of an area’s population; the labour skills and the entrepreneurial experiences of…
Introducing the Land Issue Part 1: How Scotland is Owned.
Part 2 will be posted this afternoon Whenever I have a conversation about Scottish nationalism, someone always argues that Scotland, for whatever reason, is somewhat to the left of England…
The Poor had no Lawyers
Our guest writer is land reform activist Andy Wightman, author of 'Who Owns Scotland', and now 'The Poor Had no Lawyers'. A few years ago I bought some land. Not…