Mary Kate Costello POLICY SEMINAR Youth Required: Building Resilient Food Systems for a Sustainable World Co-Organized by The Hunger Project and IFPRI JAN 25, 2018 - 09:30 AM TO 11:00 AM EST

1. Y UTH
REQUIRED
Building Resilient Food Systems for
a Sustainable World
IFPRI
Washington, DC
25 January 2018

5. 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

6. 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

8. Aspiration and Ag Opportunity
• Unleash creativity
• Inclusive and sustainable economic growth
• More green jobs
• Expanded and sustainable food systems

9. Intergenerational

10. • Knowledge sharing
• Shared responsibilities
• Shared decision making
• Maintain relevance to keep advancing

11. Resilience building
…must happen at the local level
with youth, by youth,
for everyone