Communities in Tajikistan are restoring ancient seed heritage and preserving valuable agrobiodiversity for global benefit. This video showcases farmers and local seed banks, supported by FAO, as they revive traditional crops, strengthen livelihoods, and build a sustainable future. Watch the full video on the UNFAO YouTube channel.

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Discover how communities in Tajikistan, supported by FAO, are restoring their ancestral seed heritage and safeguarding vital agrobiodiversity. This video showcases farmers, women’s groups, and local seed banks as they revive traditional crops, strengthen livelihoods, and build a resilient future.

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Guido Acquaviva emphasizes the crucial role youth play in reshaping current agrifood systems. Young people are active leaders today, bringing fresh ideas and energy essential for driving transformation within the FAO, UN, and other international institutions.

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This video features FAO's WSIS+20 session, co-organized with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). It explores how artificial intelligence and digital innovations can create sustainable, advanced agrifood systems.

Led by FAO's Office of Innovation, the session highlights updates from FAO’s Digital Agriculture & AI Roadmap and Knowledge & Partnership Gateway. It showcases emerging trends, practical applications, and collaboration opportunities for more resilient and efficient global agrifood systems.

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Andreas Von Brandt welcomes youth involvement in FAO and broader policy-making, emphasizing their critical role now and for the future. He highlights that youth often prioritize sustainability and the planet's wellbeing, which is essential as sustainability defines our future. Ensuring the human right to food requires collective action on food security, making youth inclusion vital.

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The world's agricultural heritage is sustained by the voices and faces of farmers, fishers, and herders globally. For millennia, these women and men have preserved our agricultural legacy, using traditional knowledge, creativity, and innovation to produce food while caring for the land, air, and water that sustain us.

Let's celebrate these vital people and honor the traditions that feed our future. Learn more about Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS) at fao.org/giahs/en.

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For millennia, women and men worldwide—farmers, fishers, and ranchers—have preserved our agricultural heritage. Their traditional knowledge, creativity, and innovation produce food, care for our planet's land, air, and water, and safeguard culture, biodiversity, and resilience for future generations. Let's celebrate these individuals and honor the traditions that sustain our future.

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Nicolás Jacquet advocates for legislative reform to better integrate youth into agrifood systems. He emphasizes educating young people on cooperatives' value and reducing bureaucratic barriers to their formation. Jacquet also calls for supportive, development-oriented laws to help youth launch and sustain agrifood businesses.

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For millennia, farmers, fishers, and pastoralists worldwide have safeguarded agricultural heritage. They leverage traditional knowledge, creativity, and innovation to produce food while carefully nurturing our land, air, and water.

This dedication fosters resilient agricultural heritage sites, integrating agricultural biodiversity, traditional knowledge, valuable culture, and unique landscapes.

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Simon Blondeau highlights an event uniting young agrifood professionals to demonstrate how the system ensures food security and respect. Lawmakers, diplomats, and scholars also participate, emphasizing that effective food policies require broad involvement and thoughtful regulation. He stresses the critical need to actively engage the younger generation in shaping future global food systems.

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FAO and Pontificia Universidad Javeriana have launched a new self-paced online course: "Afro-descendants in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Approach to Social and Territorial Realities in the Rural World."

Developed to make visible Afro-descendant realities and strengthen capacities, the course empowers policymakers, government officials, academics, and other key development actors. It deepens technical and territorial knowledge, fostering evidence-based, culturally relevant policy decisions for rural Afro-descendant populations.

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Zharin Moreno explains that the right to food encompasses both production and consumption, framing hunger as a result of political choices and state responsibility. She stresses that this right should guide public policies, offering a shared language for vulnerable communities to participate in shaping food systems.

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Tiffany Marcelle notes that while youth are increasingly invited into environmental and food policy discussions, their participation often lacks meaning. She highlights that young people frequently lack necessary training and warns against tokenism. The focus must shift to equipping youth with skills, support, and genuine influence to contribute effectively to policy processes.

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Quebec celebrates 80 years of partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) by planting 80 blue flag irises. These symbolize cooperation, resilience, and sustainable agriculture, marking a significant milestone in their collaboration.

This event highlights FAO’s SAGA2 initiative, which supports sustainable agrifood systems. Discover more about the project and watch the planting of the 80th bulb by visiting: fao.org/in-action/saga/en.

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This video explores Yemen's deep-rooted coffee heritage, one of the world's oldest traditions, and the determination of its farmers to sustain it despite difficult conditions. Featuring voices like Mohsen al-Harbi and experts Sam Al-Buhairi and Arzaq Al-Najjar, it highlights sector challenges, including limited equipment, conflict impacts, and market access barriers.

Despite these hurdles, communities are collaborating to improve quality, strengthen local cooperatives, and create sustainable livelihoods. This narrative showcases resilience, shared effort, and hope for the future of Yemeni coffee.

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Seaweed farming is a key opportunity for Blue Transformation in Latin America and the Caribbean, led by Chile, Venezuela, and Brazil. It provides sustainable food, supports coastal livelihoods, strengthens local economies, and delivers environmental benefits such as ecosystem restoration and carbon capture.

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Macroalgae cultivation is a promising "Blue Transformation" opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean. This activity has grown steadily, with Chile, Venezuela, and Brazil leading the region.

Beyond sustainable food, macroalgae offer environmental and social benefits: creating jobs, strengthening coastal economies, restoring marine ecosystems, and mitigating climate change. This video presents FAO's vision for macroalgae cultivation as a driver of sustainable, inclusive, low-carbon development.

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