The SIANI Annual Meeting of 2020 focused on the effective inclusion of rural youth and explored different ways to increase the interest and participation of youth in the food system as well as the connections between young people, food security and agriculture.
SIANI Annual Meeting 2020
We invited our members and friends to interact with each other and provide input for the SIANI work plan for the year ahead.
Resources
Relevant Content
By youth, for youth and with youth: True inclusion of rural youth
Hans-Olof Ståhlgren, Coordinator for The Swedish Rural Network, speaks about youth inclusion at SIANI Annual Meeting 2020.
How can we work practically to ensure effective inclusion of rural youth?
Franscesca R. Romana from IFAD speaks at the SIANI Annual Meeting 2020
Perspectives from rural youth in Burkina Faso
Hanna Sinare, researcher at Stockholm Resilience Centre, presents her research on rural youth in Burkina Faso at SIANI Annual Meeting 2020.
Experiences and thoughts of being a young agripreneur
Ritah Najjemba Lutaaya, Founder of Oikosi Youth Enterprises Limited, speaks at SIANI Annual Meeting 2020.
Making weather forecasting accessible to small-scale farmers
Liisa Smits, CEO of Ignitia Tropical Weather Forecasting, speaks at the SIANI Annual Meeting 2020.
Communication is not a monologue, but a dialogue
Pius Hiwe, Commuications Officer at YPARD speaks about communication for effective youth inclusion at SIANI Annual Meeting 2020.
Meet our new Expert Group enabling young agribusiness entrepreneurs
Get to know our new Expert Group aiming to support and enable young agribusiness entrepreneurs.
Meet our new Expert Group about wild foods, biodiversity and livelihood
Get to know our new Expert Group addressing wild foods, biodiversity and livelihood in Asia.
Meet our new Expert Group about grain processing to end hidden hunger
Get to know our new Expert Group focusing on how global best practices on farm-to-factory and grain processing can address hidden hunger in Eastern Africa.
Looking back and looking forward SIANI 2020
Ekaterina Bessanova, Communications Officer at SIANI, presents past achivements and future goals for the network at the SIANI Annual Meeting 2020.
Agenda
08:45 – 09:15 Breakfast and Coffee
09:15 – 09:20 Welcome to the Day
Annika Åhnberg, Chair of SIANI Steering Committee
09:20 – 09:30 Youth inclusion and Youngagement in rural Sweden
Hans-Olof Stålgren, Swedish Rural Network and Swedish Board of Agriculture
09:30 – 10:30 Effective Inclusion of Rural Youth
Francesca R. Borgia, Technical Analyst in Rural Youth, the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Hanna Sinare, Researcher, Stockholm Resilience Centre
Ritah Najjemba, Agripreneur, Oikos Youth Enterprises
Liisa Smits, CEO, Ignitia Tropical Weather Forecasting
Pius Hiwe, Youth-Leader Communications Champion, Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD)
10:30 – 12:00 Round Table Dialogue (Interactive)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 Reporting back from Round Table Dialogue
14:00 – 14:30 Meet some of the SIANI Expert Groups of 2020
Steven Carr, CEO and Co-founder, Agripreneurship Alliance
Femy Pinto, Program Officer, Non-Timber Forest Products-Exchange Programme Asia
Annette Almgren, Co-Founder, Hidden in Grains
14:30 – 14:45 Looking Back and Looking Forward: SIANI 2020
Ekaterina Bessonova, Communications Officer, SIANI
14:45 – 15:00 Wrapping up the Day , Coffee and Networking
Madeleine Fogde, Program Director, SIANI
Moderator: Anna Ioannou, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Officer, SIANI