youth Archives

Society

Riding the Age Wave: Can India Seize the Demographic Advantage?

byKazuki Kitaoka – WFF Coordinator and Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAOa

November 18, 2022

There is a new urgency in India to create jobs for the rapidly growing number of young people set to ...

Politics & Foreign Affairs

Can Gen Z Save the Midterms for Democrats?

byKazuki Kitaoka – WFF Coordinator and Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAOa

November 9, 2022

This story originally appeared in The Nation and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the ...

Climate Change

The Future Is in Youth’s Hands: New Skills Needed for the Green Transition

byKazuki Kitaoka – WFF Coordinator and Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAOa

October 4, 2022

Over the past ten years, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has held an annual forum to discuss training ...

Agriculture

Africa’s Agribusiness Sector to Reach US$1 Trillion by 2030: What Role Does the Youth Play?

byKazuki Kitaoka – WFF Coordinator and Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAOa

August 16, 2022

Africa harbors the youngest population worldwide in terms of average age, with 70% of sub-Saharan Africa's population being under the ...

Global Leaders

Involving the Youth in Decision-Making Processes

byKazuki Kitaoka – WFF Coordinator and Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAOaand1 others

August 12, 2022

More often than not, policies that directly impact the lives of youth are implemented but no young person was heard ...

Climate Change

Engaging the Arab Youth in Climate Action

byKazuki Kitaoka – WFF Coordinator and Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAOa

August 5, 2022

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has announced that COP27 and COP28 will be held in Egypt ...

Society

The Metaverse: How Will It Impact the Young?

byKazuki Kitaoka – WFF Coordinator and Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAOa

May 30, 2022

The World Economic Forum (WEF), the annual meeting of global political, economic, industrial, academics and non-profit organisation leaders, met last ...

SDG Series

Ten Articles Impakter Readers Loved the Most in 2021

byKazuki Kitaoka – WFF Coordinator and Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAOa

December 31, 2021

Of the hundreds of articles published by Impakter this year - there were over 1200 - the ten articles below ...

Climate Change

Youth Activists Disappointed After Landmark Pre-COP Youth4Climate Event

byKazuki Kitaoka – WFF Coordinator and Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAOa

October 4, 2021

At a pre-COP summit designed to include and empower youth voices, activists used the platforms they were given to call ...

Health

The Move to Decriminalise Recreational Marijuana in Italy

byKazuki Kitaoka – WFF Coordinator and Head of the Outreach, Marketing and Reporting Unit at FAOa

September 21, 2021

In just one week, half a million Italians united under the ReferendumCannabis ballot campaign to decriminalise recreational marijuana. Under Italian ...