Young farmers are on the front line of the worldwide shift to sustainable food production, propelled by the alarming speed of climate change and biodiversity loss. Alongside dealing with the impacts of drought, floods, and other extreme weather events, and subsequent regulatory change, they need to radically overhaul the way they farm, and do so at speed. Moving towards more sustainable food systems requires major strategy, behavioural, and technological change, and this entails risk. Farm economics are not easy, with farmers’ livelihoods often hanging in the balance. Young farmers still need to make a living, whatever change in practices is required of them, and they need support from stakeholders from across the agri-food value chain to succeed. 

This 50-minute digital dialogue, in partnership with Bayer, brought food processors, retailers, sustainability-focused NGOs, and other key players together to look at the smart, collaborative, and scalable approaches already being implemented by young farmers and their partners to help address some of the biggest challenges of sustainable food production. The conversation, which is the second in this series, centred on the crucial steps to transition identified by the European Council of Young Farmers, zeroing in on the priorities identified for the next decade, and what their partners from around the agri-food ecosystem can do to help achieve them.

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