Hemispheric meeting rural voices: youth in action

The document offers guidance to create intergenerational spaces where rural youth can share needs, visions, and proposals while strengthening leadership in agrifood systems. Drawing on the “Rural Voices: Youth in Action” Hemispheric Meeting, it explains a youth-centered approach (rights, meaningful participation, policy influence) and an intergenerational approach (co-creation with adults), warning against a “velvet ghetto” that isolates youth from decision-making. It outlines structural gaps affecting rural youth (territorial inequality, education and jobs, connectivity, and access to finance) and highlights participatory peer-learning methods, including workshops on entrepreneurship, agrifood digitalization, bioeconomy, leadership/advocacy, and communication.