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 where society 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 true agroecology 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 Scott
Nicola Scott has years of community food growing and ecological urban farming experience in Manchester spurred on by her PhD research in Mexico that critiqued GM crop technology transfer from the US/Europe to the Global Majority World. Tired of wondering how and why our economies fail many people and the planet, she co-authored Reclaiming Economics for Future Generations about diversifying, decolonising, and democratising the teaching and practice of economics. Returning to her passion for food systems change and aware of who often is not seen in the farming sector , with Jo coordinates Pathways to Land, as well a co-direct the Manchester-based Circular-City CIC.
Jo Kamal
Jo Kamal (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 the ways that capitalism and colonialism shape our internal worlds, and how this shaping maps onto real world relationships and power dynamics. They are coordinator and co-founder of Pathways to Land alongside Nicola, and they are also a keen folk 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 entirely by racially marginalised farmers and land stewards who have been systemically excluded from land ownership. We are led by a dedicated steering group of people 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!