Unfencing the land
Pathways to Land works towards true agroecology through land redistribution, shifting power from private wealth to collective stewardship.
We work towards a future of thriving rural, urban, and peri-urban communities. A future where barriers to land stewardship and land tending are eradicated, for the good of people and planet.
Photo credit: Radical Plant Folk, photographed by Shivani Rajani, 2026
We want to...
Return land
Support farmers
We support farmers with the training, skills and knowledge they need to access the land in long-term, sustainable ways.
Return land to the people! We will facilitate and support bringing more land into community ownership.
Resist developers
Support campaigns and grassroots work resisting developers buying up land that could be used for the common good (rather than for lining the pockets of the wealthy).
Beyond polite conservation
Recreational access to land is crucial, but we have to go further. True justice requires a structural transformation of land ownership, healing the violence of wealth accumulation on marginalised and working-class communities and returning land back to the people.
Monopolised land
Collective stewardship
The UK’s land monopoly concentrates power in inherited estates and large institutions. Conservative estimates show that almost 60% of all the land in England is privately owned. This locks out communities who sustained the soil for thousands of years before the land was stolen, privatised and enclosed.
We support collective or community stewardship, where land is managed as a shared resource. There are many different ways to distribute and care for the land in the service of all beings - we just have to make them happen.
Stewardship in action
Rooted in community
Our projects are led and designed by skilled and passionate communities facing systemic barriers to land access. From peri-urban farming projects to frameworks for land transfers, we provide the training and tools to support racially marginalised farmers and stewards to access land for long term community benefit.
Photo credit: Tynefield Farm, Photographed by Phoebe Davies for Culture Roots Collective, 2026
The land monopoly in numbers
50%
Only 9%
100%
Of England is owned by less than 1% of the population. This includes aristocrats, city bankers, oligarchs and gentry. This land ownership is often secured through a history of extractive industry, aristocratic inheritance and the violence of enslavement.
Of land is currently under public or charitable use, meaning millions of people do not have access to land for their livelihoods or wellbeing.
Of our training and advocacy is guided by the needs of racially marginalised and low income groups reclaiming their relationship to the soil.
Join us
Systemic change is built collaboratively, from the ground up. Find out what we do and partner with us to shift the balance of land ownership.