{"id":6035,"date":"2021-08-12T18:15:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=6035"},"modified":"2021-08-12T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T18:15:44","slug":"intl-youth-day-kogi-nycn-tasks-stakeholders-on-youth-involvement-in-food-transformation-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/intl-youth-day-kogi-nycn-tasks-stakeholders-on-youth-involvement-in-food-transformation-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Int’l Youth Day: Kogi NYCN tasks stakeholders on youth involvement in Food Transformation Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Stephen Adeleye<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The National Youth Council of Nigeria (NYCN), Kogi State chapter, on Thursday urged government at all levels and relevant stakeholders to ensure youth involvement and engagement in the transformation of food systems in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Kogi NYCN Chairman, Amb. Ogohi Samuel Usman, made the called at a press conference in Lokoja, to mark the 2021 International Youth Day (IDF), and to build on the existing working relationship with Journalists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Usmsn, the Kogi youth belief that youth engagement is germane to the transformation of food systems, and as such, should be incorporated into all Summit work streams and structures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”The success of such effort will not be achieved without the meaningful participation of young people. Consumption patterns that impact one\u2019s personal health and that of the planet are instilled early in life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”Today, global agriculture is facing major challenges, including feeding a growing world population, the need to address rural poverty, and the management of ecosystem goods and services in light of global environmental changes, evident through climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

”Food systems include not only the basic elements of how we get food from farms to the table, but also all of the processes and infrastructure involved in feeding a population, and the negative externalities that can be generated during the process, such as air and ocean pollution as well as desertification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Usman stressed that population health was also relevant in addressing food systems challenges, especially as nutrition-related chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some forms of cancer were major contributors to the global burden of disease.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added there was also the risk of zoonotic diseases that can result from unsustainable farming practices and the climate crisis, which had been even more evident during the pandemic that had highlighted those with such chronic diseases which are at a higher risk for negative outcomes from COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n