Empowering youth through digital innovation and entrepreneurship

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and Zhejiang University (ZJU) recognise the important role youth, startups, innovation and digital technologies play in modernising agriculture and creating employment in the agriculture and rural development sector. As a result, FAO and ZJU collaborating to foster an innovation and entrepreneurship environment for increased use of technologies and adoption of innovation. The collaboration aims to strengthen the capacity of policy makers, practitioners and smallholders, particularly youth and women, startups to harness digital tools and technologies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of agrifood systems. This publication highlights the key activities and achievements of this collaboration.