Promoting youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems

Lessons MYPoW for 2020–2023 requested the High Level derived from the food crisis of 2007–2008 and the economic crisis of 2009 led to the reform of the CFS and the formation of the High Level Panel of Experts for Food Security and Nutrition so that decisions and the work of CFS are based on hard evidence of state-of-the-art knowledge. [...] realization of the transformation required for sustainable food systems in the next- generation must be built on a foundation of PROMOTING YOUTH ENGAGEMENT AND EMPLOYMENT IN AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SYSTEMS agency, rights, equity and recognition of the to non-discrimination, to participation, to food, role of youth as agents of change across to education, and to decent work – as central all dimensions. [...] These range from among the systems that support food production, the management of natural resources including food supply chains, food environments, the agrobiodiversity, soil health, and forest and behaviour of individual consumers, diets, and fisheries conservation, research and advisory nutritional and wider outcomes that feed back services, and the development and production of into the syste. [...] (biophysical and environmental, technological At the same time, research and careers in the and innovative, economic and market, rapidly emerging field of food literacy cross- political and institutional, socio-cultural, and cut nutrition, early childhood education and demographic) affect, and are affected by, youth sustainable food systems, aiming to support in their particular societal and demog. [...] In the case of Ecuador, the the right of nations, peoples and communities constitution also recognizes the right to food to define their own food systems and their sovereignty and rights of the environment itself approach to the achievement of food security (Clark, 2017; Giunta, 2014; McKay, Nehring and nutrition, including through new laws and and Walsh-Dilley, 2014; Peña, 2016; Pratt and policie.