" Almost everything that is great has been done by youth" -Benjamin Disraeli
Youths are the immunity of the nation. Either on pandemic or on natural calamities, a ray of the boat that preserves us from drowning condition is termed as a youth. On the present contrary, COVID-19 is a sizably voluminous quandary for the whole world that has killed more than 8 lakh people and dismantled the chain of demand and supply on the market. It has created a tremendous problem called global food insecurity. Due to this pandemic mobility of people, accessibility to resources for production and utilization of produced goods has been paused worldwide.
COVID along with pandemic it brought us great fear of famine and malnutrition. Sustainable food systems is a food system that delivers food security and nutrition for all in such a way that the social, economic, and environmental bases to generate food security and nutrition for future generations are not compromised. Production of food or product alone can't fulfill the demand and the hole created by pandemic on post-life. Along with production, accessibility, and utilization of produced food are very comprehensive. In order to maintain life after the pandemic as normal before everyone must play a significant role on their level. But, the major task should be performed by youth. Youth through various means should design the environment for a mini-level green revolution once again.
The active participation of youth in maintaining a sustainable aliment system is essential for all the likely solutions to victuals(food) insecurity. The contribution of youth to a sustainable aliment system can be ascertained in some of these programs that I'm going to discuss here. First of all, erudition, information, and training to youth are keys for their participation in food security and sustainable food system programs. Youth involved in sundry vocations like agriculture, forestry, medicine, the pharmacy can avail in sustainable pabulum systems via their own vocations. For instance, community-wide mass media programs through radio, television, mobile phone contrivances on the crop, a disease affecting them weather data like rainfall, fertilizer requisite, pest control, etc can be conducted with opportune utilization of youth.
Free online training courses can avail youth to detect the quandaries and solutions at the local level which could avail in engendering, aggregation, processing, distribution, consumption, and disposal of waste in a productive manner. The sundry(various) campaigns can be conducted to edify people for optimum utilization of kitchen garden, roof garden, and maximize the engendering for the people of urban areas. By collaborating with different NGOs/INGOs various campaigns could be run on the rural area by youth where this COVID pandemic has hit the most like providing free fertilizer, seed, free productive advice so that such activities lead motivation toward the local farmers. `
Farmers for various programs of victuals security and mass engendered(production). Youth should be provided the training to handle technological modern implements and equipment because youth can learn and spread the erudition expeditious in comparison to other age groups. Moreover, we can initiate youth programs to enhance the adeptness of adolescent farmers and organize sundry start-up businesses to enhearten agriculture and pabulum practices. In additament to the cognizance of agricultural engendering and processing techniques, puerile farmers and youth need access to resources and information about finance, land, and markets.
To cope with the outcomes like famine and aliment insecurity youth must work and involved in the frontline during and after the COVID pandemic. Engendering a community level cognizance through no victuals wastage campaign, information cognate to organic farming, optimum utilization of soil without degrading its quality should be spread. Utilizing convivial media youth can be involved in exposing the demerits of exorbitant utilization of chemical pests and fertilizer that farmers use with the acquisitiveness of overproduction. Youth additionally can be involved in a campaign that spreads erudition about pest control methods so that local and commercial farmers be prepared with threats like locust attack and other various diseases and pests.
Youths are a gem and the future of a nation. so, they must be well prepared to fight against food insecurity to maintain a sustainable pabulum system during and after the COVID pandemic to run the food chain and cycle in a mundane way as it was afore.
-Nama Raj Bhusal
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