Distinguished participants,The Koronivia Team is happy to welcome you to pre-COP event on Creating a resilient livelihood for youth in small-scale food production.Before getting the sessions started, we would like to remind you to:1) Mute your microphones when not speaking in order to avoid any background noises.2) If you want to pose questions to the panellist, you are encouraged to use this chat box or the Q&A section, which is constantly monitored by our team. The questions will be forwarded to the facilitators.5) In case you need to and rename yourself, you can do so by clicking on your participant’s window. There you can see three little dots, in the right-hand corner. Click on them and choose the option “rename”.6) If you encounter any technical problems, please leave a message in the chat box, a team member will get back to you as soon as possible. Alternatively, please email at Koronivia-JWA@fao.org.

We are looking forward to a fruitful discussion and wish all participants a successful and interesting dialogue!

Martina Fleckenstein is the Global Policy Manager of the Food Practice for WWF International. Martina has over 25 years of experience in national and international environment and development policies, based on a board knowledge on implementation of agriculture and sustainable food production projects in different geographies globally.

Eduardo Mansur is the Director of the Office of Climate Change, Biodiversity and Environment (OCB). He is a national of Brazil, holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Forestry from the Faculty of Agriculture of the Federal University of Paraná, Brazil and an MSc in Environmental (Forest) Economics from the University of Helsinki, Finland.He started his career in 1981 as a Researcher (Silviculture) in a collaborative programme of the Federal University of Paraná and the Eduardo Mondlane University of Mozambique and led the Natural Resources Division of the Environment Institute of Paraná State, Brazil. Thereafter, he joined FAO and in 2012 he was appointed Director of the Forest Assessment, Management and Conservation Division; and in 2016, Director of the Land and Water Division.

Dear all,We would like to get to know the participants more and ask you two quick questions:Which geographical region do you represent? (Europe and Central Asia; South-East Asia and Pacific; Latin-America and Caribbean; North America; Africa; Middle East)Have you ever worked with youth in small-scale food production?

1. Africa;

AFRICA

Grenada

AFrica

Latin America

Sabah, Malaysia

Yes

Africa Kenya.

South-East Asia

Africa, Somalia

I'am Jean Robert Rival, from Haiti (LAC)

South-East Asia and Pacific

Hello! I'm Ana Cristina from Latin-America

1. Nepal, 2. Yes

Europe

middle east

Latin America

Nigeria, Africa

Mrs. Htwe Htwe Aung from Myanmar, South East Asia

Rehana Noor from Bangladesh, Working at BRAC

Europe

Trinidad and tobago

latin america

Latin America

Africa, Tanzania

Yes

Grenada, Yes

Latin America

Guatemala and Honduras

Yes

Africa Kenya James Konde.

Yes

2. Not yet

yes

Grenada

Eastern Europe, Romania, Transylvania, Fundatia ADEPT Transilvania- biodiversity and cooperation with small scale farming communities

2. Yes

NO

1. South-East Asia, 2. Not yet

You can download the the Global Action Plan of the UNDFF here http://www.fao.org/3/ca4672en/ca4672en.pdf

Working with small scale producer groups in Somalia

Veronica Ndetu is an agriculture and climate change expert. She holds a Master’s degree in Seed Science and Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Agriculture. Ms Ndetu is the head of the climate Change Unit at the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Cooperatives in Kenya, where she coordinates implementation of climate change initiatives in the country including capacity building agriculture sector stakeholders on enhancing resilience, adaptation and mitigation.Ms Ndetu coordinates various multi stakeholder platforms, that facilitates topics such as: Knowledge Sharing, Networking & Collaboration, Influencing Policy Development and Implementation, Credibility in Coordination and Reporting Processes and promoting inclusivity in climate change actions in agriculture. She participates and leads the Kenya agriculture negotiations on KJWA.

1- Latin-America (Brazil) 2- I work with na App (FAO) to Communication to Development, to rural youth in Latin America

My organization is involved with people-organizations’ livelihood in the Philippines

Very less work with youth in agriculture....sadly to see youth putting their back in farming in Malaysia. Its the curse of agric., industry

Why a future in agriculture doesn't seem attractive to youth? If we do not reward farmers more, we might lack labor for agriculture at a certain moment.

Points to consider to attract youth to agriculture:

1) Enforcement to develop agriculture curriculum in education; 2) duty-bearers’ conscientious support in agriculture industry; 3) prioritizing local products over imported/foreign products; business sector willingness to to invest for farmers’ technical capacities

Hello! Here's more information about the App: http://www.fao.org/in-action/programa-brasil-fao/proyectos/sector-algodonero/lazosapp-aplicacion/es/ Our focus of work is rural schools... we currently work with rural youth in Paraguay,

Other: There should be a market incentives as a driver for youth engagement

Genna Tesdall (she/her) is an agriculture systems thinker taking on projects to sustain the environment and people, now as the incoming director of YPARD. She strives to be a servant-leader in order to foster equality between generations (and all delimiters of privilege). Before joining YPARD, she was the federal agricultural policy officer at the German Rural Youth Association (Bund der Deutschen Landjugend) (2020). As a Fulbright Researcher at the Humboldt University of Berlin (2018-19), she focused on youth involvement in agricultural policy, and was the former president (2013-14) of the International Association of Agriculture and Related Sciences Students (IAAS). She is a graduate of the global oriented Iowa State (2015) and Penn State Universities (2018) with a MSc in Plant Pathology and International Agriculture and Development.

Pramisha Thapaliya is co-lead of YOUNGO Agriculture Working Group. She is passionate about sustainable agri-food systems transformation, meaningful youth engagement and climate action. Pramisha is also a youth ambassador of Real Food Systems.

Youth farmers also need mentorship.

Common problem in developing countries: the government is tied up with bureaucracy in its own system…no real implementation of legislations for agriculture industry in support to UN agreements/declaration… AND: UN agencies should lax their regulations on funding opportunities to give way to NGOs access to financing…Governments are not that interested to implement community-based initiatives like those for the youth

Veronica mentioned the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture, check out the website here: https://www.fao.org/koroniviaYou can subscribe to the FAO Koronivia newsletter for latest news and updates here: http://newsletters.fao.org/k/Fao/koronivia_subscription_form

and we need connectivity in rural areas, there is no going back on the issue of digitization, it slows down the development of young people. it's one of the steps to insert themselves in other environments, in other markets,+ education for digitization

Guilherme Brady is the Head of the Unit for Family Farming Engagement and Parliamentary Networks within FAO Partnerships and UN Collaboration Division and is the responsible officer of the Joint Secretariat FAO-IFAD for the United Nations Decade of Family Farming. Mr. Brady holds specialization in Public Policies and Governmental Management from the National School of Public Management (ENAP), Brasilia, Brazil, and a master's degree in Environmental Policy and Management from the University Carlos III, Madrid, Spain. He has 24 years of professional experience, mainly focused on building inclusive policy dialogue and implementing public policies. He worked at the Brazilian Ministry of Agrarian Development with different roles, including Head of Cabinet of the Secretary of Family Agriculture and Head of the Minister's Advisory Office. Mr. Brady joined FAO in 2014 where he was responsible for FAO relationship with Civil Society and Producer Organizations, to implement FAO’s Strategy on Partnerships with CSOs.

You can join us by filling this form: https://forms.gle/6wq686ZwkG4pij8P9 Feel free to ask any question at pramisha.thapaliya@unmgcy.org My colleague Vanessa, is also available to take any question, that you have :)

Thank you Pramisha!

Very good Pramisha

Anneleen VAN UFFELEN is a world citizen. She has a double Master degree in European Union Studies and International Relations. Her background is in EU and international law, economics and politics with a focus on environment and climate change, as well as social and gender studies. Since 2019, her main role is as a socio-economic and climate change specialist in the FAO project to support the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture (KJWA). She has worked on the topics of climate finance, climate related data and data ownership, but mainly focuses on, climate justice, just transition and vulnerable groups such as small-scale food producers, youth, gender and Indigenous Peoples.

Learn more about FAOs work boosting Koronivia here http://www.fao.org/koronivia/en/Download Understanding the future of the Koronivia Joint Work on Agriculture here: https://doi.org/10.4060/cb6810en

Pablo Ruiz works for Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung (HRNS) as CEO for Central America in Guatemala City, Guatemala since 2018. The regional office of HRNS in Guatemala coordinates projects in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Colombia, implementing interventions that improve the agronomical management of coffee, support organizational development, help farmers to adapt to climate change and improve the women and youth participation as active players in the coffee value chain.

He has a major in Agricultural Sciences from the Pan-American Agricultural School – Zamorano in Honduras. Pablo has over 12 years of experience working in rural development. He started with HRNS in 2009, as part of the M&E department, and later, as Coordinator for the Initiative for coffee&climate, starting 2016 coordinated all HRNS climate projects throughout Central America, including the Initiative for Coffee&Climate in the Trifinio region (Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador), the Feed the Future - Alliance for Resilient Coffee (Guatemala and Honduras) and The Climate Smart Coffee with the SAFE Platform (Guatemala)

koronivia? means

thank you for that explanation.

Tamia Salazar graduated in biotechnology from The University of Queensland in Australia in 2019, with a major in plants focusing most of her studies on plant biology. She has participated in pest detection projects and in the improvement of the production of commercial species, especially legumes. She has been part of the organizing committee of the Herbarium Seminary and its treasures in 2021, and in the ninth edition of the Latin American Congress of Medicinal Plants.She is currently a collaborator in the Translational Biology Group at Ikiam University in Ecuador. She is also part of the Kichwa people of the Napo region in the Amazon. Her father is the coordinator of the guayusa tea leaf production line in the Alto Napo small producers association called Wiñak. She has collaborated with the editing and drafting of different projects for the improvement of the Wiñak processing plant and in the training of Kichwa women around the chakra and the different production lines.

Ronald Kiwalabye is a Climate Activist, Farmer, Father and an expert in Sustainable Development. He is the Executive Director of The Schools Tree Project which works to empower children and Women Youths into becoming important stewards and stakeholders in the fight against Climate Change in Uganda.  He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Environment Management.  He is also the Chairman of Elite Soccer Academy also based in Uganda.

Bennett, Anthony has over 25 years of international work experience in working for FAO and IFAD on improving market access, food systems and sustainable value chains development. He has led the design, negotiation and implementation as team leader and Lead Technical Officer or a range of complex and large multi-donor funded initiatives including the EU funded US$94 million UNJP on Support of Enterprise development, Investment and Trade in Papua New Guinea which is led by FAO.

Tony returned to work for FAO from IFAD in 2010 where he led the FAO global work on food loss and waste, including the setting up of multiple Multidisciplinary platforms and collaborations with the private sector (e.g., Rockefeller for the African union) before moving to RAP in 2016 as Food Systems Senior Officer (Post-production). He has experience working on improved post-harvest management, value addition, with farmer cooperatives and small- and medium-scale agricultural enterprises, related training, and has worked in over 110 countries. Tony holds an MSc (Agriculture in Engineering Technology) from University College Dublin and MA (Research Meritus) Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.

Levi Pompermayer is a biologist with a PHD in Biodiversity, and is working as a professor and researcher at São Paulo State university (UNESP) in the Fisheries Engineering department and Biomaterials and Bioprocess Engineering Postgraduate program. Enthusiast of research, development and innovation using algae and aquatic plants for sustainable production systems and biotech applications. It works with a bio economic approach and social technologies for new products and processes.

Flore Ferraro is a policy officer for Afdi – Agriculteurs français et développement international (French farmers and international development) in charge of agroecology, climate change and agricultural advice. She is also in charge of the follow-up of Afdi actions in Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast.

levi.p.machado@unesp.brhttps://www.aquariounesp.com.br/sobrehttps://www.registro.unesp.br/#!/ensino/graduacao/engenharia-de-pesca/https://www.instagram.com/lapla.unesp/

Thank you Levi!

Zoë joined the Haller team 2 years ago after graduating from the University of Sussex. As Program Manager, she continues to develop and promote Haller’s methodology for sustainable development by scaling up their impact through mobile technology, while also exploring new opportunities for growth and development. She has also spent time volunteering on various conservation and sustainability projects across South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland. This was the catalyst for her passion and desire to promote environmental sustainability.

Please contact me at zoe@haller.org.uk if you would like to find out more. Thanks

This is very interesting Zoe. I have been using app its great tool.

Thank you all for having participated to this dialogue.If you would like to know how Indigenous youth are acting as agents of change to make our food systems more resilient, please attend our other pre-COP event tomorrow at 14:30 CEST, by registering here: http://www.fao.org/koronivia/events/detail/en/c/1430702/Please find all info on FAO’s support to KJWA here: http://www.fao.org/koronivia/en/http://newsletters.fao.org/k/Fao/koronivia_subscription_form

To download the app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.haller.app and here: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/haller-farmers/id1566321861

Please find all info on FAO’s support to KJWA here: http://www.fao.org/koronivia/en/http://newsletters.fao.org/k/Fao/koronivia_subscription_form