youth required: building resilient food systems for a sustainable world
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Y UTHREQUIRED
Building Resilient Food Systems for a Sustainable World
IFPRIWashington, DC25 January 2018
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Barriers to Youth in Ag• Gap between training/skills and employer requirements
• Time poverty
• Lack credit, market and land access
• Insufficient access to policy dialogue
• Limitations to young women’s economic empowerment
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Internet and Aspiration
As more people connect to the internet, aspirations continue to rise: for things others have and demands for opportunities
- Jim Yong Kim, President, World Bank Group
• Africa: home to over 1 billion people (mostly youth)
• 226 million smartphones connected to internet by end of 2015.
• By 2020: three quarters of a billion
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Aspiration and Ag Opportunity
• Unleash creativity
• Inclusive and sustainable economic growth
• More green jobs
• Expanded and sustainable food systems
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Intergenerational
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• Knowledge sharing
• Shared responsibilities
• Shared decision making
• Maintain relevance to keep advancing
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Resilience building
…must happen at the local level
with youth, by youth,
for everyone
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