- Dirección de Cooperación Técnica (DCT)
Description
Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences has been chosen to host a United Nations World Food Forum Youth Innovation Lab, serving as the sole U.S. site. The lab aims to empower youth aged 18-35 to develop innovative solutions addressing food security and climate change through competitions, incubator programs, bootcamps, master classes, and networking events. The initiative is supported by Penn State’s academic and research programs, including the Global Teach Ag Network.
Authors:
Resultados:
- Food access
- Increased knowledge
- Sustainable Rural Development
- Employment
- Jobs generated
- Training of skilled technicians
- Institutional capacity building
- Information generation
- Production inclusion
- Social inclusion
- Technological Innovation
- Food and nutritional security
- Agrifood systems that use resources efficiently, are low carbon and more circular
- Environmental sustainability
Sectors:
Thematic Areas:
Instruments:
- Access to entrepreneurial financing or seed capital
- International, public-private partnerships
- Situation and prospective analysis (regional or international)
- Support to technological research and development
- Technical assistance to producers
- Seedling/working capital grants to start manufacturing or processing processes
- Creation and Development of Standards, Certifications, Labeling, and Seals
- Rights and Protection Mechanisms of Intellectual Property
- Digitization of information
- Education and awareness building
- Field schools
- Sustainability Standards or Protocols
- Strategies, plans, policies or guidelines; sectoral or national
- Studies and diagnoses
- Fostering of associativity
- Education and training for farmers
- Entrepreneurial capacity building
- Influence on public policies
- Business incubation and acceleration
- International initiatives in research and development
- Artificial intelligence
- Experience sharing
- Internet of things
- Policy Monitoring and Evaluation
- Organization of innovation systems
Languages:
- English
Beneficiaries:
- Family agriculture
- Rural communities
- Consumers
- Youth
- Women
- Producer organizations (cooperatives, etc.)
- Entrepreneurs
- Researchers
- Agro-industrial producers
- Agricultural producers
Countries:
- United States
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