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Strategic partnerships that support the empowerment of youth are the very heart of the World Food Forum.
Considering the growing challenges facing our agrifood systems, we believe that it is only through strategic partnerships that we can drive a shared vision of an empowered global youth contributing towards a better food future for everyone, everywhere. Join us in this exciting journey as we empower a movement of young leaders actively shaping global and local agrifood systems.
If you are interested in joining forces with us, explore the various partnership opportunities outlined below. Reach out to [email protected] with your proposal or for more details!
WFF Flagship event
Each year, the WFF culminates its activities and actions in a jam-packed flagship summit and festival full of statements from global leaders, debates, innovations, scientific research and cultural celebrations. In 2023, the WFF flagship event hosted over 400 events and sessions and attracted 6 000 in-person attendees and over 65 000 online visits from 186 countries over various platforms.
We are actively looking for partners for the flagship event and beyond. As a partner, you will be supporting the next generation of leaders, United Nations agencies and distinguished partners from around the world to create a better food future for everyone, everywhere.
Explore this value-based partnership opportunity and help us co-create this premier global summit.
We are looking for:
- Youth-led grassroots organizations related to food action, especially from the Caribbean, the Arctic, Eastern Europe, the Russian Federation, Central Asia and Transcaucasia, and the Pacific;
- Academic institutions from across the global with majors in international politics, food systems, agricultural sciences, law and policy focused programmes;
- Sponsors for our Youth Policy and Deliberation Challenge (PDC);
- Sponsorship and support for the work done by our Youth Policy Board (YPB) and Young Scientists Group (YSG);
- Partners and sponsors for our Youth Towards Zero Food Waste Campaign through our different initiatives aiming to tackle and educate youth on food waste.
We are looking for:
Under the Startup Innovation Awards:
- Sponsors for the prizes;
- Expert evaluators and semi-finals judges;
- Investors looking to support entrepreneurship for positive agrifood systems transformation.
Under the Transformative Research Challenge:
- Co-hosts to sponsor and co-create our 2024 special prizes (e.g.- from academia, research institutions, UN agencies / divisions);
- Expert research mentors and evaluators.
Under the Youth Food Lab:
- Sponsors to help grow our impact and support our teams of young innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs.
- Mentors and facilitators from academia, private sector or UN agencies.
We are looking for:
- Educators and experts to host masterclasses and provide educational tools and content for the Youth Skills Hub;
- Educators and experts to develop behavioral science tools, and provide capacity building for youth advocacy and training of formal and non-formal educators;
- Partners to collaborate and support outreach for our Food Loss and Waste YUNGA Challenge Badge in English, French and Spanish.
We are looking for:
- Sponsors to support our cultural activations (the 2024 Film Festival, art exhibitions, and culinary and musical activities);
- Chefs for gastronomy events;
- Artists and musicians that work on topics related to agrifood systems.
We are looking for:
- Youth-led and focused organizations at the national level to initiate, strengthen and grow WFF National Chapters in different countries;
- Funding support for WFF National Chapters to implement transformative pilot initiatives at the local level and promote the development of agrifood systems.
We are looking for:
- Initiatives to co-facilitate our existing communications workshops;
- Online magazines that are in line with our brand and target audience to partner with our communications workshops and collaborate with the attendees;
- Partners to further develop our podcast series;
- Organizations and academic institutions that can help amplify the key messages and activities of the WFF to their audiences through digital and social media.
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