To unite and empower youth (aged 18-35 years) from diverse backgrounds around the world to have a voice, and affect positive change in their landscapes and livelihoods.
By Michelle Kovacevic What happens when you take 150 people and ask them to design a session together? Some might say chaos, others might say equitable participation. At the Youth in Landscapes Initiative, we subscribe to the school of the latter – no matter how much trickier diversity may make processes, it is important. So when it […]
When future generations look back at our time, will they be filled with awe at how we came together to transform our way of life to be regenerative? Or will they look back with confusion and anger, wondering how we knew about the problem but did not address it? This question fuels me. I long […]
My name is Hajar Anbar, I was born and raised in Morocco. Travelling and discovering new cultures made the most part of my adult life; it reached to a point that it became difficult for me to identify solely as a Moroccan. I like to call myself a global citizen always ready for the next destination. I graduated from University Mohamed […]
A bit over two years ago, I took a monumental risk. In hindsight nevertheless, that risk has time again shown itself to have been of one my worthiest decisions. Moving back to my home country, Israel, for the final and most important two years of my high school I enlisted […]
When I think about landscapes, the first word that comes to my mind is ‘integration’. When looking to different elements of a system, it was irresistible for me to see parts of other systems linked to it and start thinking about their interconnections. My mind always tries to solve the puzzle. It is a spontaneous way of […]
Cameroon is made up mostly of rural towns, and most of the communities’ livelihoods come from agriculture. Hence, cash crops and food crops are all that are cultivated. Most farmers are inexperienced, so farmers stay in a particular piece of land over a long period of time, reducing the yield of crops and thereby causing […]