Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sustainable Intensification - Youth Engagement
Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Collaborative Research on Sustainable Intensification – Youth Engagement Side Event
Increasing youth empowerment and livelihoods is a key goal of Feed the Future, mostly because supporting and empowering youth can help to sustainably reduce global hunger, malnutrition and poverty. With one third of the total population — about 2.3 billion people —between the ages of 15-34 years old, there is no better time to focus on youth. About 80 percent of these young people live in developing countries. The largest youth populations are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, where youth un/under-employment is high[1].
This side event will feature “Youth Engagement” where we will have representatives from Senegal (ISRA researcher and Peace Corps Volunteer), Cambodia (CE SAIN researchers), and the United States (Borlaug-Ruan International Fellow). Dr. Vara Prasad, SIIL Director, will make opening remarks, and Dr. John Bowman, Bureau for Food Security (BFS)/USAID will make closing remarks highlighting how institutions can facilitate these partnerships and provide opportunities to engage youth in global agriculture.
Speakers will include:
- John Bowman, Program Area Leader, Bureau for Food Security (BFS), USAID
- Lyda Hok, CE SAIN Director, Cambodia
- Adam Keally, Peace Corps Volunteer, Senegal
- Channaty Ngang, Graduate Student, Cambodia
- Vara Prasad, SIIL Director, Kansas State University
- Zach Stewart, Assistant Research Professor, Kansas State University
- Fatou Tine, Graduate Student/Researcher, Senegal
Panel Moderator:
- Jan Middendorf, SIIL Associate Director, Kansas State University