In 2022, 738.9 million people still faced hunger. At the same time, our planet faces multiple crises that are directly linked to our agrifood systems, including climate change, biodiversity loss, deforestation, soil degradation and others.
Youth, who will inherit these challenges, must be placed at the forefront when it comes to finding solutions to some of the most pressing issues facing our agrifood systems. As innovators and advocates, they are strategically positioned as drivers and agents of change, advancing education, technology, science and policy. Their willingness to take risks and embrace new ideas is crucial for improving food security and achieving the transformation of our agrifood systems.
In 2024 the World Food Forum (WFF) Global Youth Action - a youth-led movement and network to transform our agrifood systems - is committed to the theme: “Good food for all, for today and tomorrow”.
The WFF Global Youth Action is engaging and mobilizing youth and youth supporters from around the world through a range of events, innovations, targeted agrifood investments and solutions designed to spark holistic, strategic and at-scale sustainable agrifood systems transformation.
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Good Food for All, for Today and Tomorrow
Based on the 2024 theme of the World Food Forum, this Award aims to identify and support global startups that are developing innovative, technology-based solutions to sustainably address food insecurity and access to healthy diets (including, but not limited to: sustainable production of livestock, fisheries and crops; responsible management of forests, wetlands, soil and water; and scaling up clean energy for sustainable agrifood systems transformation).
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Food Loss
This Award aims to recognize startups that are developing innovative technological solutions to help reduce food loss within global agrifood systems, focusing on single or multiple interventions within agrifood supply chains, from post-harvest to throughout the supply chains up to the retail stage.
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Empowering Women in Agrifood Systems
This Award aims to recognize startups that are most impactfully increasing access of women to land, inputs, services, finance and digital technology to drive positive agrifood systems transformation, particularly in the Global South.
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Digital Innovation in Food Processing
This Award aims to recognize and elevate startups that are leaders in digital and/or data solutions, which tackle and propose innovations in the following areas in the food processing industry: improved efficiency, higher quality, sustainable production and products, food safety and improving labor conditions.
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Youth Towards
Zero Food Waste
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YOUTH ASSEMBLY
Empowering and connecting young agents of change to spark global dialogues and galvanize transformative actions towards a sustainable global agrifood system.
EDUCATION
Uniting schools and youth groups worldwide to call on youth to take action and become #FoodHeroes.
INNOVATION LAB
Inspiring innovation for sustainable development in support of ending hunger and transforming our agrifood systems, through global competitions and education to spark behavioural change.
CULTURE
Bringing together the world’s youth through the universal language of culture to inspire hope and incite action to end world hunger and transform our agrifood systems.
LOCAL ACTION
Empowering and catalyzing local youth leadership and action in changing the present and future of local agrifood systems for a better food future.
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