Why  YARD ?

With the global population estimated to reach nine billion people by 2050, within the context of a climate crisis, the creation of sustainable food systems is one of this century’s greatest challenges. Initiating dialogue across academic institutions by bringing together cross disciplinary discussions provides a virtual platform of sharing of ideas and creating new conversations, that could further the possibility of designing sustainable food systems.

Mohammed VI Polytechnic University (UM6P), the University of Cambridge (UoC), The Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (​RUFORUM), the African Researchers’ Network (ARN) are organizing the Young African Researchers’ Dialogue (YARD) under the theme “Young African researchers’ contribution to UNFSS: What needs to change and how ?”

Theme:  The YARD dialogue will address key questions raised by the five action tracks of the UNFSS, and will provide a rich picture of how youth and specifically young African researchers regard the subjects of the action tracks and their suggestions for achieving the objectives of each action track and the challenges facing this particular category of researchers in Africa.

Participants: Young (doctoral (2^nd – 3^rd year), post-doctoral scholars and research fellows, who are engaged in research that has an overlap with sustainable food systems, from the sciences and the social sciences, are invited to join the event. This is an opportunity to contribute your opinions on the action tracks and YARD provides the channel to have your voice heard at the UNFSS deliberations in September 2021.

Register here : https://bit.ly/3vN7A3Q