Over the past 2 years Community Action for Land Liberation (CALL), have held Popular Education Circles (PECs), on topics related to land justice. We have viewed this as the ability to access and steward a most essential common resource, and a subject at the intersection of most social and environmental crises.

Naturally in these learning spaces we covered the British Enclosures (and how this model of land theft was exported under colonialism to countries in the Global South), Palestine, Food Sovereignty and different forms of Democratic Decision-making inspired by communities in the Global South such as the CIPOG-EZ. These spaces were non-hierchial spaces of understanding, learning and visioning where the PRALER framework was used to guide conversations.

Through the 20 or so PECs we facilitated over the 2 years, Food Sovereignty, as defined by La Via Campesina, was identified by our community as the area to root our organising, whilst continuing to support groups working in other areas. This birthed our recent efforts to launch a Right to Grow (RTG) campaign. The framing by the global peasant movement of Food Sovereignty as ‘the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems’ resonated deeply with our community.

Globally, our current agro-industrial food system is degrading fertile top soil at an alarming rate with some estimated 60 years of fertility left. It is no secret the current system exploits peasant farm workers in the Global South disposing them of their land when not exposing them to harmful agrochemicals. In the UK around half of our food is imported, and with climate change affecting yield, recent years have seen sustained increase in food prices undermining food security. In our local area c.35% of residents experience food insecurity – the lack of reliable access to enough affordable and nutritious food for a healthy lifestyle.

The RTG campaign seeks to replace permission with a ‘Rights-Based’ approach to food growing, with processes that result in uncomplicated free leases for community groups. At CALL we recognise that our struggles locally are interconnected with global systems of oppression, and see local food growing as one way of divesting from the extractive and exploitative paradigm of the global imperialist system. This is whilst being in dialogue and mutual knowledge exchange with Global South grass roots group themselves through programmes such as the Decolonial Open Communiversity.

In late November 2025 we kicked-off with an open-meeting with our community to ground the RTG campaign to our contexts and collect interest in providing energy to the objective. Our second session collectively identified what work needed to be done, with then us all mapping our individual skills and passions to these areas of work. We plan to reclaim an unused piece of land and launch a pilot grow-site in Spring, using the space and process of food growing as a process for political education and practical action towards Planet Repairs. 

About
Community Action for Land liberation (CALL) is a North London based, grassroots land justice group, organising through anti-colonial popular education and action to build regenerative infrastructure that serves the practical needs of our local community. We work in coalition with liberation groups locally and internationally. CALL is part of the PRALER process.