Youth and Food Systems Transformation

@inproceedings{Glover2020YouthAF,
  title={Youth and Food Systems Transformation},
  author={Dominic Glover and James Sumberg},
  booktitle={Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems},
  year={2020}
}
What, if anything, is special about youth with respect to engagement in food systems? This question is important, owing to the size of the current demographic cohort of youth, globally but especially in the majority world, as well as the large stake, and strong influence, that today's youth will have in the development trajectories and future sustainability of food systems. Although youth is often framed as an age category for policy and bureaucratic purposes, this simplification obscures… 

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