Youth Agri Champions Demand Paper 2023
Over the summer of 2023, 17 young farmers, agripreneurs and representatives worked together to create a collaborative demand paper addressing the main 3 challenges they believe farmers face to have sustainable and profitable businesses. This paper details these demands.
Over the summer of 2023, 17 young farmers, agripreneurs and representatives worked together to create a collaborative demand paper addressing the main 3 challenges they believe farmers face to have sustainable and profitable businesses. This paper details these demands.
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<strong>Youth</strong> <strong>Agri</strong><strong>Champions</strong> <strong>2023</strong> are a group of<br />
The<br />
smallholder farmers, agripreneurs, and<br />
young<br />
representatives from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria,<br />
farmer<br />
and Zambia, convening under the<br />
Rwanda,<br />
of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global<br />
auspices<br />
(BKMC) as part of its Elevating <strong>Agri</strong>cultural<br />
Citizens<br />
program. The group came together for<br />
Adaptation<br />
series of workshops during the summer of <strong>2023</strong> to<br />
a<br />
challenges smallholder farmers face,<br />
discuss<br />
in relation to capacity building. Based<br />
particularly<br />
their knowledge and experiences, the <strong>Youth</strong><br />
on<br />
developed a set of demands<br />
<strong>Agri</strong><strong>Champions</strong><br />
towards the international community to<br />
directed<br />
capacity building for smallholder farmers<br />
improve<br />
provide them with the tools and means to<br />
and<br />
to current and future climate change impacts.<br />
adapt<br />
Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens’ mission<br />
The<br />
to foster leadership for the implementation of the<br />
is<br />
Development Goals and the Paris<br />
Sustainable<br />
Agreement by inspiring current leaders -<br />
Climate<br />
makers and empowering the next<br />
decision<br />
of leaders – change makers.<br />
generation<br />
with governments, civil society, academia,<br />
Working<br />
international organizations, the BKMC has<br />
and<br />
more than 770,000 people around the<br />
reached<br />
to date. Located in Vienna, Austria, the BKMC<br />
world<br />
co-chaired by the 8th Secretary-General of the<br />
is<br />
Ban Ki-moon, and the 11th President of the<br />
UN,<br />
Reithuber, Program Manager<br />
Angela<br />
Rocca, Administrative & Program Associate<br />
Beatrice<br />
ABOUT THE WORKSHOP SERIES<br />
THE YOUTH AGRI CHAMPIONS<br />
Aaron Nanok, 32, Kenya<br />
Annat Shittu, 23, Nigeria<br />
Esther Kamasa, Kenya<br />
Everlyne Ngugi, 27, Kenya<br />
Felix Atamba, 21, Kenya<br />
Felix Tetteh, 26, Ghana<br />
Halima Sadiya Ahmad, 23, Nigeria<br />
Helene Uzayisenga, 35, Rwanda<br />
Irene Kagera, 34, Kenya<br />
Lubona Annie Mwale Chifita, 30, Zambia<br />
Mohammed Hafiz Musah, 26, Ghana<br />
Mubanga Sampa, 34, Zambia<br />
Opeyemi Elujulo, 32, Nigeria<br />
Quinter Chemutai, 25, Kenya<br />
ABOUT THE BKMC<br />
Segun Adegoke, 29, Nigeria<br />
Suleiman Dawud, 26, Nigeria<br />
BKMC FACILITATORS<br />
Venacious Tembo, 26, Zambia<br />
LAYOUT DESIGNER<br />
ILLUSTRATIONS<br />
Katre Olmez, BKMC Chief Communications Officer<br />
Gabriela Rueda<br />
BKMC CONSULTANT<br />
Republic of Austria, Heinz Fischer.<br />
Maria van Veldhuizen<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> <strong>Agri</strong><strong>Champions</strong> <strong>Demand</strong> <strong>Paper</strong>
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