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Wow what an epic year it has been already ! A massive welcome to the 163 new members that have joined Young Farmers Connect this year and a huge thank you for all your support. We have been deeply engaged across Australia’s local food system delivering a heap of programs, projects, workshops, research, advocacy and networking. Across NSW alone our amazing coordinators have delivered 9 events catering for over 300 participants including 6 field days and 3 Holistic Management training courses. We are also proud to have recently co-designed and added our signature to a group statement of young farmers organisations from the G20 nations to be presented to ministers and officials at the G20 and UN Food Systems Summit. We are calling for recognition and radical change to policies, allocation of funding and consideration for our needs, concerns and to make suggestions to improve the livelihoods of rural communities. Our aim is to ensure the competitiveness and success of young farmers across the world, effective generational renewal policies and strategies which enable Young Farmers to be actively engaged : as key stakeholders in the fight against climate change to seek opportunities for the development of sustainable R&D solutions to demand a protection of labour rights and fairer labour policies to build awareness about farming and farmers to address land access for new and young farmers and to create equality along the food chain
We have also committed YFC to being a proactive and collaborative partner with the other young farmers organisations as global partners in the formation of an international young farmers advocacy group and have joined with the largest farming organisation in Italy representing some 70 thousand young farmers working in rural areas to protect and enhance the economic well-being and quality of life for farmers, ranchers, fishers, and rural communities through bottom-up approaches for the benefit of all young farmers.
You can read the complete statement to be presented this week in Milan which we will also be forwarding to Australian ministers and heads of departments.
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