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🌱 WFF 2025 Side Event 🌍
Co-organisers: Agroecology Coalition, Ban Ki-moon Centre (BKMC), YPARD

This event amplified youth voices and showcased how agroecology can drive inclusive, rights-based, and climate-resilient food systems . Through dialogue between agroecology experts, policymakers, and youth activists & farmers, our objective was to unpack the power of agroecology in uplifting smallholder farming communities and young people, highlighting youth-led agroecology initiatives as tangible best practices.

📢 This event also marked the launch of the BKMC’s 2025 Youth AgriChampion Demand Paper, titled:
📄 “Youth-Powered Agroecology: Building Climate Resilience for Smallholder Farmers”

🎙️ Speakers:
-HE Ban Ki-moon, Former Secretary General of the UN & Co-chair, BKMC
-Smart Israel, BKMC Youth AgriChampion 2025
-Wendy-Yam Osman, BKMC Youth AgriChampion 2025
-Zdravska Dimitrova, Right to Food Specialist, FAO
-Hon. Rtd Major Kyakulaga Fred Bwino, Ministry of Agriculture, Uganda
-Harry O’Crowley, Head of International Development, Department of Agriculture, Ireland
-Elizabeth Maanda Sianga, Director of Sianga Farms & Founder of AgroQueens
-Katre Olmez, COO, BKMC

🎤 Moderators:
-Edoardo Corriere, Global Programme Coordinator, YPARD
-Amelie Steu, Associate Coordinator, Agroecology Coalition

🌍 Visit our website: https://agroecology-coalition.org/