World Food Forum Global Youth Action Initiative 2025 Results Report

01/01/2026

This report presents the key achievements, outcomes and lessons from the WFF Youth Initiative in 2025. It reflects the breadth of youth engagement across regions and thematic areas, the strengthening of partnerships and the growing impact of youth-led action. The report also underscores the importance of continued investment in youth as essential partners in building agrifood systems that are more efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable.

Youth and Young Women in Pastoralism: Policy priorities from the Global Youth Consultative Process

01/01/2026

This policy brief translates the priorities identified through a Global Youth Consultative Process into practical policy priorities for governments, UN agencies and development partners. It highlights the role of young pastoralists in sustainable rangeland management and resilient agrifood systems and the barriers they face in accessing land, productive resources, decent livelihoods and meaningful participation in decision-making, with particular attention to the barriers faced by young women.

Building Youth Infrastructure for Generational Renewal in Agrifood Systems. Agrifood systems cannot be transformed sustainably unless they can continuously renew the generations who lead, innovate and invest in them – thereby ensuring lasting food and nutrition security

01/01/2026

The Theory of Change sets out OYW’s approach to enabling continuous generational renewal in agrifood systems through youth infrastructure – the institutions, policies, investments, capacities, partnerships and knowledge systems that enable successive generations of young people to contribute and lead. It defines OYW’s institutional role and how the World Food Forum Youth Initiative operationalizes this approach through Capabilities, Agency and Systems and eight interconnected areas of action.

World Food Forum Global Youth Action Initiative: Investing in youth is investing in durable solutions

01/01/2025

The World Food Forum's (WFF) Global Youth Action Initiative (Youth Initiative) was established to harness the passion and power of youth to transform our agrifood systems. It is implemented through a set of thematic programmes, that work together to create awareness, foster engagement and inspire youth-led transformative action.

Innovations by and for youth in sustainable agricultural production

01/01/2025

This report focuses specifically on innovations in sustainable agrifood production, examining how production-level innovations led by or accessible to youth can contribute to wider agrifood systems transformation.