During its 46th Plenary Session (14 – 18 October 2019), the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS) requested its High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) to produce a report entitled “Promoting youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems”, to be presented in 2021 (the request is provided below) [1].

The report, which will provide recommendations to the CFS workstream “Promoting youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems”, will:

• Review the opportunities for, and constraining factors to youth engagement and employment in agriculture and food systems, including youth access to:
  1. Knowledge, information and education;
  2. Productive land, natural resources and inputs;
  3. Productive tools, extension, advisory and financial services;
  4. Training, education and mentorship programmes;
  5. Innovation and new technologies;
  6. Markets;
  7. Policy-making processes.
• Examine aspects related to employment, salaries, and working conditions;
• Review rules, regulations and policy approaches, including territorial approaches, aimed at addressing the complexity of structural economic, cultural, social and spatial transformations currently taking place globally;
• Explore the potential of food systems and enhanced rural-urban linkages to provide more and better jobs for women and youth.