Youth Agri Champions Demand Paper 2023

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achieve this, governments should consider To platforms for regular exchange and establishing between smallholder farmer groups, collaboration policymakers across different relevant trainers, academia, and other stakeholders. For departments, policy issues, such as water management or specific promotion of off-grid energy solutions in the agriculture, task forces should be smallholder including farmers, trainers, academics, and created, associations, to support the development industry institutions should commit to Academic their links with smallholder farming strengthening facilitating engagement between smallholder by and students and faculty in relevant farmers such as agricultural sciences, land and disciplines management, environmental policy, water should initiate further joint research projects They farming communities and encourage students with spend time with smallholder farmers and delve to agricultural innovation. This would ensure that into policymakers, project managers, and tomorrow’s have a deeper understanding of the academics of smallholder farming, and of the practical realities of their policies and projects. implications should put their innovation Governments to work for smallholder farmers, ecosystems start-ups that provide new technological supporting facilitating affordable loans, tax incentives solutions, pay-as-you-go business models to make those and more accessible to smallholder farmers, solutions launching initiatives such as hackathons and and challenges to overcome common innovation UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and BKMC staff meet the AgriChampions from Kenya 8th the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi, Kenya - September 2023 during of effective policies. problems. environmental and biosystems engineering. Youth AgriChampions Demand Paper 8
services are not Extension effective as they could be as building does Capacity reach enough women not capacity building to Tailor needs women’s science, and practice Policy, disconnected remain links between Strengthen science, and practice policy, the demands in this paper are based on our While and experiences, we believe that the knowledge and initiatives outlined would interventions enhance the resilience of smallholder strongly beyond our countries. Our demands are farmers interconnected and will have the greatest closely if they are implemented as a comprehensive impact package. the demands include many entry points Moreover, allow practitioners to start small if budgets are that Simply adjusting the timing of trainings to limited. around women’s schedules, for instance, will fit greater participation by women facilitate farmers and contribute to closing smallholder are convinced that our demands will guide We in securing better opportunities for action farmers to adapt to a changing climate smallholder that is why we forcefully demand that and international organizations, NGOs governments, the private sector uphold initiatives that and investment in extension services, tailor increase building to women´s needs, and forge capacity links between policymakers, scientists, stronger and smallholder farmers. innovators Summary Strengthened Extension Services Conclusion Challenge: Demand: Invest in extension services Women and Capacity Building gender gaps. Challenge: Demand: Undersigned, Connecting Policy, Science and Practice Challenge: The Youth AgriChampions Aaron, Annat, Esther, Everlyne, Felix A., Felix T., Halima, Helene, Irene, Lubona, Demand: Hafiz, Mubanga, Opeyemi, Quinter, Segun, Suleiman, Venacious Youth AgriChampions Demand Paper 9
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