The Status of Youth in Agrifood SystemsFood & Agriculture Org., 2025 - 350 pagine The world's agrifood systems stand at a crossroads. With 1.3 billion youth globally, the future of food, livelihoods, and economic resilience depends on their participation in agrifood systems. At the same time, agrifood systems need youth to drive productivity, innovation, and sustainability in a crucial and rapidly evolving sector.FAO's "The Status of Youth in Agrifood Systems" report is a call to action. It presents the most comprehensive, evidence-based analysis of youth in agrifood systems to date, highlighting both the opportunities and structural barriers that shape their engagement. It explores how transforming agrifood systems can enhance decent job opportunities and food security for youth, and how empowered youth can drive this transformation.It concludes highlighting policy recommendations and areas of investments to foster more equitable and sustainable agrifood systems, where rural youth are both beneficiaries and leaders of change. |
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adolescents agrifood systems employment agrifood systems transformation agrifood systems transition Asia Author's own elaboration Bangladesh Benin Bosnia and Herzegovina Burkina Faso Cambodia challenges Chapter climate change cohorts Côte d'Ivoire dietary DIVERSIFYING economic elaboration based employment in agrifood engagement in agrifood Ethiopia EXPANDING farming female Figure food security food systems FORMALIZING gaps gender Ghana Global households IFAD impact income increase Indigenous Youth industrial agrifood systems insecurity International Kenya Kyrgyzstan land livelihoods livestock Malawi male middle-income countries mobility NEET Nigeria nutrition off-farm agrifood systems opportunities outcomes participation percent of young policies programmes Republic of Tanzania Research resilience Rome rural areas rural youth Rwanda sector Senegal share of youth skills social capital sub-Saharan Africa sustainable Tanzania technologies Timor-Leste traditional agrifood systems Uganda United Republic vulnerable young farmers young women youth aged youth employment youth engagement youth migration youth population Zambia Zimbabwe