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Reflections on Gentrification, Food Justice and London

Written by Rose Ziaei This summer, Community Food Growers Network held an evening of discussion on Gentrification, Food Justice and London for around 35 people at Impact Hub in Brixton. For many of us, reflections around the topic started with our journey to the event. Our journeys involved walking past the Brixton Arches where traders…

Why we can’t afford to lose the plot: Land, Labour and connectedness in Britain

By ZahraDArticlesaccess to land, class, colonialism, farming, food, getry, labour, nobility, pauperland, poor laws, poverty, privilege, serfs, slavery

Poverty has not always been a scourge upon humanity or even been represented as such. Originally, being poor was a blessed state of being associated with virtuosity, as in ‘blessed are the meek’. The poor, it was said, would inherit the earth. Beyond the religious reformations, the protestant church played an increasingly greater role in…

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Reflections on Gentrification, Food Justice and London

Why we can’t afford to lose the plot: Land, Labour and connectedness in Britain