Field Assessment

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G
1	Field	Leaders in Field	Agroecology: Self Assessment	Food Sovereignty	Anarchist Movement	Animal Liberation Movement	Prison Abolition

2	Length of experience in field	Decades	4 years	4 years (longer term campaigner against industrial animal farming, 15 years)	12 years	16 years	1.5 years
3	Practical experience:
4	- Project delivery	Extensive experience	Strong: SCF, Feed Avalon, Brook End	Strong: Growing resilience project, access to land, SCF, RTF, Feed Avalon	Limited anarchist-specific projects	Strong: WARN, SHAC, local groups	Beginner but very active
5	- Site establisment	Extensive experience	Brook End
6	- Site management	Extensive experience	Brook End, but could be managed significantly better
7	- Consultancy experience	Hundreds	5-10 Projects
8	Knowledge & Skills:
9	- 'Scientific' knowledge	Thorough	Foundational	Strong	Intermediate	Strong	Foundational
10	- Technical knowledge	Thorough	Foundational	Strong	Intermediate	Strong	Foundational
11	- Practical skills	Very competent	Strong, lots of learning edges remaining	Strong	Strong	Strong	Strong
12	- Specialisation	Usually one area of field that strong specialisation	Plant based systems,political agroecology	Anarchist agroecology	Anarchist agroecology, Prisoner Support, Animal Liberation	Mainly anti-vivisection campaigning historically. More recently land struggle	Prison Expansion
13	- Generalisation	Strong	Intermediate	Strong	Intermediate	Strong	Strong
14	- Research skills	Developed & practiced	Limited experience	Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate
15	- Recognised qualifications	Several	Diploma in Permaculture Design, Cert. Hort, BSc, MSc in progress	MSc Political Agroecology
16	- Niche optimisation	Long term	Recent (Dec 14)	Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate	Intermediate
17	Dissemination
18	- Teaching experience	Decades	2 years, minimal/part time. Taught one PDC.	Good foundation	None specifically about anarchism	Some	Facilitated large number of workshops, other experience limited
19	- Workshop leading/public speaking	Decades	Strong	Strong	None specifically about anarchism	Some	Strong
20	- Article writing	Prolific, widely published	Adhoc, minimal impact	Published but not prolific	Published but not prolific	Published but not prolific	Published but not prolific
21	- Book writing	Published & popular	None	None	None	None	None
22	- Media production	Often produced documentaries/film projects/photography or other media to share work	Limited to website & writing	Limited to website & writing	Limited to website & writing	Limited to website & writing	None
23	- Presence at events	Frequent	Strong UK participation	Strong UK participation	Fairly common participant	Strong UK participation	Strong UK participation
24	- Internationalism	Well travelled	Only UK experience	Active with Reclaim the Fields internationally, but limited experience abroad	Solidarity work with Italy & elsewhere with ABC	Spoke in Italy/Spain/Basque country, toured Europe historically. Otherwise limited to UK.	None so far.
25	- Publication in journals	Peer reviewed work	None	None	None	None	None
26	- Website visibility & popularity	Well visited	Foundational	Foundational	Foundational	Foundational	Intermediate
27	Movement Building
28	- Relationship to field organisations	Strong relationships	Relationships established but not cultivated	RTF strong, good links with other groups, not strong with LWA	Local groups, strong. National groups, not strong.	Strong historical links to grassroots groups, now limited. Distanced from mainstream organisations.	Strong (not reformist groups)
29	- Community organising/social movement participation	Strong	Strong	Strong	Intermediate, not much participation with explicit anarchist groups in recent years (due to my license)	Strong historically.	Strong
30	- Knowledge creation/edge pushing	Generate new ideas/proposals/challenge existing paradigms	Mainly knowledge consumption.	Strong	Beginner	Intermediate	Strong
31	- Movement Building Project initiation	Initiate large, strategic projects	Projects mainly local in focus	Intermediate	Prison abolition projects	Strong historically.	Strong
32	- Coalition working	Strong relationships	Strong, maybe too radical/isolated	Strong, maybe too radical/isolated	Intermediate	Strong historically.	Intermediate
33	Levels of respect
34	- Positive reputation	Well respected	Respected but not in high esteem due to recent entrance to field	Good reputation, but maybe feared because of animal liberation/anarchist politics	Yes, as far as I know	Yes, as far as I know	Yes, as far as I know
35	- Positive feedback from learners	Positive feedback from learners	Positive feedback from learners so far	Positive feedback from learners so far	Yes, as far as I know	Yes, as far as I know	Yes, as far as I know
36	- Positive feedback from co-workers	Strong	Positive so far	Positive so far	Yes, as far as I know	Yes, as far as I know	Yes, as far as I know
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