Our vision
Justice leads to thriving communities
We want to see nature reconnection particularly for communities who face barriers in accessing or farming the land. We believe reconnecting with nature is vital to a process of anti-colonisation and repair.
Land and community healing
We work for a world that is transformed for the better through a fundamental shift in land-use towards true agroecology and land justice. We see a future where people who want to live and work on land in order to mitigate the climate crisis and create resilient communities can do this without barriers. We see a future where land ownership is not concentrated in the hands of a few, but collectivised, with the best interests of local communities and flora and fauna at the heart of land stewardship models.
How we get there
Bridging the gap
We connect farmers and landseekers who have been historically disenfranchised from accessing opportunities to steward land with the contacts, funding, and knowledge necessary to access land for sustainable livelihoods, land stewardship, and cultural and ecological wealth.
We provide training, connections to landmatching, and safer caucus spaces for Global Majority people to access the support they need in a resourced way. We work to reduce the gap between what landseekers need and where they currently are.
We are committed to the work needed to reclaim custody of the land and create agroecological communities from the ground up.
Photo credit: Woodland Farm, Photographed by Phoebe Davies for Culture Roots Collective, 2026
True agroecology = land justice
We work to clear pathways for land-based livelihoods and land-based living for all people. Our work is led by farmers and land stewards facing systemic barriers to land access.
Meet the team
Nicola
Nicola (she/her), a co-founder of Pathways to Land with Jo, has years of managing and facilitating community food growing spaces, urban farming experience in Manchester, and co-managed Defra’s New Entrants Support Scheme (SE), all after her PhD research in Mexico critiqued GM crop technology transfer from the Global North to South. She’s co-authored a book about diversifying, decolonising, and democratising economics, using it to support currently underserved people onto land to enter/stay in the farming sector. She also co-directs the Manchester-based Circular-City CIC.
Jo
Jo (they/them) is a vegetable grower and organiser working on anti-oppression within the agroecology movement. They have spent six years as a farmer growing vegetables commercially and they have a background in decolonial research. They are particularly interested in how to unlearn the teachings of capitalism and colonialism from within our internal worlds. They are coordinator and co-founder of Pathways to Land alongside Nicola, and they are also a keen community herbalist.
Collaborators
Pathways to Land is part of the wider movement, and is partnered with aligned organisations working towards a more just land system.
Our ethics
Who guides your work?
How are you funded?
We are led by Global Majority land stewards who have been systemically excluded from land ownership. We consult regularly with a dedicated steering group of farmers with lived experience of land access barriers.
As a non-profit Community Interest Company, we rely on funding, grants, and donations. We are always open to more connections with funders and donors. Please get in touch with us if you'd like to support!