Youth movement leads the charge worldwide for food systems transformation ahead of UN summit (Modern Diplomacy)

Modern Diplomacy published an article stating that young champions from Brazil to India, Cameroon to Fiji, and more than 100 countries around the world have been engaging in public debates across the five priority areas or Action Tracks, which include food security and nutrition, sustainable consumption, environmental protection, poverty, and resilience. Jemimah Njuki, Director for Africa at International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is leading the lever of change on gender equality and women’s empowerment. Seven areas of equality cut across priority areas of the Summit including equal rights to land, economic empowerment of women in food systems, unpaid care and agricultural labor burden, women’s leadership in food systems, access to technologies, changing norms, and addressing institutional barriers, and gender-responsive agricultural and food systems policies. The lever is closely supported by director general Johan Swinnen, as well as the Food and Land Use Coalition to bring on-board the best evidence for government, private sector, the finance sector, and other actors. Republished in Global Landscapes Forum