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Challenging young minds
This blog post is written by Kerstin Scragg, teacher at Celsiusskolan in Uppsala.
I have had the great pleasure to join SLU Youth Institute in Des Moines, Iowa, to participate at Global Youth Institute and the World Food Prize conference which focuses on future food security. We have enjoyed inspiring talks and lectures, participated in different workshops and our two Swedish high school students have presented essays at a round table conversation together with other students and experts in respective field. I work as a teacher at a high school in Uppsala and this trip really started a year ago when I signed my class up to write the Global Youth Institute’s Global Challenge essay.
Global Youth Institute stärker ungas intresse för global livsmedelstrygghet
Den här bloggen är skriven av Kristina Karlsson Green, programkoordinator för SLU Youth Institute i Alnarp, i samarbete med Anna-Klara Lindeborg and Elisabeth Nyström, programkoordinatorer i Uppsala och Umeå.
Den 23 oktober var det äntligen dags för avfärd, efter veckor av förberedelser reste vi koordinatorer inom SLU Youth Institute tillsammans med tre gymnasieelever och en lärare till Des Moines, Iowa, för att delta i Global Youth Institute (GYI). Efter att ha förberett och pratat ihop oss under hösten, möttes vi till slut alla upp på Kastrup – Zeb från Lycksele, Alice från Uppsala och Nina från Lund. Och så Anna, engelsklärare på gymnasieskolan Spyken i Lund, som följde med för att stötta eleverna och delta i GYI:s program för medföljande mentorer.
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Social, environmental and economic challenges facing biodiversity in the Andes
This blog post is written by Huda Ibrahim, SLU Youth Institute alumni.
After participating in SLU Youth Institute, she applied for a scholarship at World Food Prize Foundation. Her application was accepted, so during the summer 2023 she spent eight weeks at International Potato Center in Peru. This is a story from a trip she did during the internship.
In the mountains region of Peru, at an altitude of 3000 to 4200 meters above sea level and in between multiple communities, there is a treasure of a landrace diversity of indigenous crops that has been maintained for thousands of years. However, this biodiversity and associated traditional knowledge is now at risk of eroding due to a continuous increase in youth’s migration to urban areas. Recently, I had the privilege to participate in a 10-day study tour to investigate and learn about key innovations of human adaptation to socio-ecological change and the conservation of agrobiodiversity. This tour exposed different aspects of crop diversity conservation by smallholder farmers and the significance of maintaining it for future generations.
Video shoot with SLU Youth Institute
This blog post was written by Viktoria Wiklicky, Research Assistant at the Department of Energy and Technology; Environmental Engineering Unit, SLU and first published at the blog Kretsloppsteknik.
To promote SLU Youth Institute and the advantages for high schools becoming part of it, I was invited to talk about the Black Soldier Flies in their 2022 launching video. Fly larva composting is a tool to close the loop of a now linear food production system and aims to make food production more circular. Promoting the technology to the next generation will ensure that our passion and our ideas will be continued in the future.