Facts
Time: 2022-06-01 11:00 - 12:30
City: Stockholm/ Digital
City: Stockholm/ Digital
1
Jun
Stockholm/ Digital
The global food crisis – a threat or opportunity for young smallholder farmers and agripreneurs?
Current world developments and shocks, are potentially leading to a reversal of the rural youth progress achieved in recent years in terms of inclusion, and access to decent employment, in food systems development. This event looks at the challenges today's rural agripreneurial youth face in building capacities toward contributing to sustainable food systems, but also the opportunities these challenges can bring.
How can, and will, agripreneurial rural youth build capacities to support sustainable food systems?
The event will be streamed both on Facebook and on YouTube.
Co-organised by the Swedish International Agricultural Network Initiative (SIANI) and the Agriculture for Food Security 2030 programme (AgriFoSe2030), this event will address the capacity development needs of rural agripreneurial youth and how to enable them to take on the challenges of feeding a projected 9.7 billion people by 2050 in a sustainable manner.
Insights on the topic will be shared by speakers from AGRA, the Eastern African Farmers’ Federation, BARIDI, Sanitation360 and SLU.
Speakers
Dr. Agnes Kalibata – President of AGRA
Ms Elizabeth Nsimadala – President of EAFF and Director Women Affairs at PAFO
Tracey Kimathi – Founder of BARIDI
Dr. Jenna Senecal - CEO fo Sanitation360
Dr. Assem Abu Hatab – Associate Professor in Food and Development Economics (SLU)
The event will take place in person at the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and will be streamed online (link TBC).
This event will be part of the A Day at Sida which takes place during the whole day 1 June, 2022. Please follow the link for registration to one or several of the events.
The event will be streamed both on Facebook and on YouTube.
The registration to join physically at Sida is now closed.
In partnership with:
Contact
Anneli Sundin
On parental leave until August 2023
Communications lead, AgriFoSe2030
SEI, Stockholm Environment Institute
Telephone: +46 702 454 646
E-mail: anneli.sundin@sei.org
Ng'endo Machua-Muniu
Communications Lead, C&E team
Stockholm Environment Institute
Telephone: +46 (0)70-316 80 30
E-mail: ngendo.machua@sei.org