Youth Required: Building Resilient Food Systems for a Sustainable World

Y UTHREQUIRED

Building Resilient Food Systems for a Sustainable World

IFPRIWashington, DC25 January 2018

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

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

Aspiration and Ag Opportunity

• Unleash creativity

• Inclusive and sustainable economic growth

• More green jobs

• Expanded and sustainable food systems

Intergenerational

• Knowledge sharing

• Shared responsibilities

• Shared decision making

• Maintain relevance to keep advancing

Resilience building

…must happen at the local level

with youth, by youth,

for everyone