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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With this goal, at the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global<br />
Citizens we facilitated the development of a<br />
demand paper by a selected group of <strong>Youth</strong><br />
<strong>Agri</strong><strong>Champions</strong> from Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria,<br />
Rwanda, and Zambia. This group consists of 17<br />
smallholder farmers and farmer representatives as<br />
Foreword<br />
As smallholder farmers are the amongst the most<br />
impacted, it is crucial that capacity building<br />
well as agri-preneurs, all under the age of 35.<br />
occupies a central role in climate adaptation efforts.<br />
I strongly support the <strong>Youth</strong> <strong>Agri</strong><strong>Champions</strong> and<br />
During my tenure as Secretary-General of the<br />
United Nations, I worked tirelessly to bring together<br />
their demands focusing on investment to reach<br />
smallholders on the ground, provide them with<br />
world leaders to address the awaiting impacts and<br />
destructive effects of climate change. This resulted<br />
resources and knowledge as well as to bridge the<br />
in the landmark Paris Climate Agreement signed in<br />
gap between policy, science and farmers.<br />
2015 by 196 countries. However, in discussions<br />
Their invaluable young voices must be brought to<br />
since, the overwhelming focus has been solely on<br />
the decision-making table and their demands must<br />
climate mitigation efforts.<br />
be taken into consideration, most importantly by<br />
world leaders heading the climate negotiations.<br />
Without urgent action now on climate adaptation,<br />
the world will fail to adapt to the impacts of climate<br />
change as needed and further billions of people will<br />
I hope that these explicit demands play a role in<br />
go hungry. Amongst the most impacted are<br />
influencing the global discussion on agricultural<br />
smallholder farmers. They are the least to<br />
adaptation, shaping the agenda on a worldwide<br />
contribute to the causes of climate change and play<br />
scale.<br />
a crucial role in our global food systems. Despite<br />
this they only receive 1.7% of total climate finance.<br />
If smallholder farmers are to continue to feed our<br />
BAN KI-MOON<br />
communities, we have the responsibility to<br />
change by ensuring that they are continuously<br />
8th Secretary-General, United Nations<br />
Co-Chair, Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens<br />
strengthen their capacity to adapt to climate<br />
trained on climate change adaptation practices.<br />
<strong>Youth</strong> <strong>Agri</strong><strong>Champions</strong> <strong>Demand</strong> <strong>Paper</strong>
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