I urge you all to continue engaging in the process of finalizing these policy recommendations. These policy recommendations are envisioned as an ambitious, focused and action-oriented tool that will encourage public policies to foster enabling environments capable of tapping into the energy and skills of youth to make agriculture and food systems become more sustainable and promote food security and nutrition.Īs their starting point, they call for recognition of the diversity, intersectionality, and context specificity of youth aspirations, needs and experiences across the globe. Foster sustainable and inclusive innovation.Enhance equitable access to knowledge, educations and skills.Increase equitable access to resources, infrastructure and markets.Secure dignified, attractive and rewarding livelihoods.Provide an enabling environment for youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems.These policy recommendations, when endorsed, will provide the guidelines for policy actions necessary to boost youth engagement in agriculture and food systems. Their report forms the basis of the CFS Policy Recommendations on Youth Engagement and Employment in Agriculture and Food Systems that we are working on, with you all. Their inputs and recommendations are contained in a report launched last year on Promoting Youth Engagement and Employment in Agriculture and Food Systems by the CFS High Level Panel of Experts. Exposure to risks, limited training and access to capital, low social recognition for agricultural and food workers, and poor wages turn many away from agriculture and from rural areas.Īt CFS, we went out and asked youth what kind of support they need. However, these youth face many challenges including limited access to and control over land, natural resources, infrastructure, markets, insurance, finance, technology, knowledge and skills, as well as limited participation in decision-making processes. Pablo is an example of millions of young people, who are realizing the potential of agriculture and food systems for meaningful engagement and livelihoods, and are tapping into it.
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His only dilemma is how to get this cheese to major markets. The cheese was tasty! It was as good, if not better, than any I have tasted before.
A vibrant young man who is transforming his community by producing cheese from goat milk collected from his neighbours. In April this year, I was in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, for the FAO Regional Conference for Africa where I met Pablo. You are making changes - in villages and cities, learning institutions, civil society movements and businesses.
Shaping the future has to be FOR youth, WITH youth and BY youth.Īnd they are doing it. Today’s youth live in a world facing a confluence of crises, including climate and environmental change global inequalities in food security and nutrition pandemics and conflicts including the devastating one in Ukraine.Īddressing these challenges cannot be done solely by those who created them using the same means that got us here in the first place. I hope that discussions like this contribute substantively to shaping the final policy recommendations to be endorsed at CFS Plenary – CFS 50, in October.Įngaging youth in a meaningful way is very close to my heart and is a priority of my term as CFS Chair. This Forum is well-timed, just ahead of the negotiations on CFS Policy Recommendations on Youth Engagement and Employment in Agriculture and Food Systems that start next Monday. I would like to start by thanking Rick, Robynne and the entire PSM family for organizing this Global Youth Forum, a culmination of the regional forums you have organized in the last few weeks.
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