#BuildBackBetterCaribbean Ep 2 - The Why in WHYFarm: revolutionising agriculture
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About this episode
WHYFarm, which stands for “We Help Youth Farm” was created to encourage young people and children to get involved in sustainable agriculture and choose to grow food. Its vision is to produce a generation of agricultural entrepreneurs, who can lead Trinidad and Tobago’s contribution to achieving global food and nutrition security by the year 2050.
As countries and their leaders across the world grapple with a food security crisis sparked by #COVID-19 , WHYFarm’s Founder, Alpha Sennon, and its Communications and Community Coordinator, Audra Smith, explain that mobilising youth to feed their communities is critical for sustainable pandemic response.
WHYFarm offers a refreshingly creative take on promoting the importance of #agriculture; pioneering concepts like “agri-edutainment”, “agri-preneurship” and “agricoolture” to educate and build the capacity of young people to tackle the challenge of #food security.
About the #BuildBackBetterCaribbean podcast series
Living with COVID-19 is about adopting behavioural changes, adapting to social disruption, and absorbing the economic impact of the pandemic. It’s our brave new normal of survival. Prevailing over the pandemic will mean applying its lessons to not only recover but to emerge stronger and more resilient.
Caribbean civil society - already in the business of social transformation – is still leading the struggle to protect human rights, improve lives and fortify communities, but now in a changed, post-COVID context: one that demands urgent, direct action to overcome the impact of the pandemic but that also presents opportunities to rebuild better and move faster towards the #Caribbeanfuturewewant.
The United Nations Information Centre for the Caribbean Area wanted to hear directly from civil society organisations (CSOs) about their own experiences supporting clients through the global pandemic emergency, and how they perceive their roles in the rebuilding that must follow. Also, how the Sustainable Development Goal framework is supporting this reconstruction of lives and livelihoods to achieve an inclusive, peaceful, sustainable development vision.
The #BuildbackbetterCaribbean podcast series of conversations on the post-COVID Caribbean, captures CSO insights on their pandemic experience and their stories of recovery and rebuilding as they draw on the SDG toolbox to construct a brighter, more durable and resilient Caribbean future.