"The Scottish Land Commission proposals have the potential to be an important step towards a more transparent and objective policy debate in the interests of all." Chief of Land, Housing and Shelter Section at the United Nations Human Settlements Programme R Lewis-Lettington 🇺🇳 🇰🇪 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Sometimes poems find their form in land, sometimes they're in maps; together, names, weather & land can offer something magical. Here's 'Reading the Skyline' a poetic take on high points around Ennerdale. Wild Ennerdale AHRC Landscape Decisions & Community Empowerment Mike Innerdale vimeo.com/521334365

If you couldn't join us for the Owning Our Future, film and discussion you can watch both the films and the recorded panel here: thestove.org/event/owning-o… Special thanks to @alsatch Saskia Coulson and Colin Tennant and panelists Morven Gibson and Linsay Chalmers Community Land Scotland.

Blog: Communities, ‘Green Lairds’ and the Climate Emergency. calummacleodblog.wordpress.com

Encouraging to see cross-party commitment to legislating for a new Land Reform Act in the forthcoming Scottish Parliament. #SP21

Out now: NEW global report on Indigenous peoples' and local communities' #TerritoriesOfLife 🔗report.territoriesoflife.org The report underscores #IndigenousPeoples’ and local communities’ rights as the biggest opportunity to address #biodiversity and #climate crises. #ForNature

Our Annual Review 2020-2021 is available now. Have a look at what we’ve been doing over the past year: bit.ly/SLCAnnualRev20… #LandReform

This looks like a great wee project, and with with workshops starting soon - thanks Dr Joanna Rodgers for sharing!

Pleased to have contributed a chapter titled ‘Community Land Ownership and Sustaining Scotland’s Islands: Lessons from the Western Isles’ to this collection edited by ⁦Kathryn A Burnett⁩, @RayBurnett1320 and ⁦Mike Danson⁩

We are looking for a new member to join our team at GAAFS, UoEdinburgh. Full stipend and fees offered to research community ownership and food systems with brilliant supervisors. :-D Please share. findaphd.com/phds/project/c…

Positively buzzing to be hosting Profs Nancy Peluso and Wendy Wolford next week. Please join us for this special lecture if you can. All welcome. Registration recommended: eventbrite.com/e/the-social-l…

This Sunday, 3pm, join us: filmhousecinema.com/showing/film-c…