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.
Ahead of the youth activities at December’s Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) in Peru, which will focus on building youth skills and knowledge to become leaders and effectively contribute to discussions, we caught up with Andhyta Utami to find out how her career path has changed and her advice for upcoming youth leaders and participants in the 2014 GLF (Register to […]
Do you: Find it difficult to network at big conferences? Feel shy to put up your hand and say something at side events? Struggle to understand the political and technical jargon used by climate change and sustainable development folks? Want to build all these skills and meet a bunch of like minded young people and […]
By Simon Riley. Simon Riley is an agronomist and independent researcher with the Global AgroEcology Alliance and a development reporter for the Global South Development Magazine. With the GLF14 approaching and my residence in Sri Lanka drawing to an end, I took the opportunity to visit the Belipola Arboretum and Forest Garden, a living […]
By Marie-Eve Jean. Marie-Ève Jean is a 24 year old graduate student of water resources engineering at the University of Alberta, in Canada. She is actively engaged in community agriculture and water resources management, having volunteered in a community center in Rwanda and on a reforestation project in Costa Rica. She is passionate about international […]
By Michelle Kovacevic, Coordinator of youth activities at the Global Landscapes Forum This blog was originally published on SciDev.Net This time last year, I was only just starting to understand the participation challenges that young people across the world face when attending large science policy conferences. On the surface, it seems progress has been made, with many […]
Jaime Webbe was one of our inspiring youth moderators of the Youth in Southeast Asia special session at the Forests Asia Summit, held in Jakarta in May this year. During this session, Jaime led a group of youth through a ‘knowledge expedition’ to identify the key skills that young people need to engage in and […]
