ORFC 2026 8 – 9 Jan
From community allotments and farms of the UK to the grasslands of Maasai homeland, access to land, or exclusion from it, determines how communities function, how we produce food, eat, and our ability to situate ourselves in nature. This panel explores the intersection of land rights, nature, community, and food. We explore how traditional Maasai cultural resources have been used to resist enclosure of shared land, how perspectives from the global south might help shape community land management in Scotland, how allotments serve as mechanisms for providing utopic city spaces, and how English farming has an important role to play.