Over the past years, there has been an explosion of interest in the role of youth in food and agriculture systems. Youth have seized this opportunity, and many diverse youth groups have published political position statements on a variety of global food and agricultural governance topics. This compendium aims to analytically summarize youth calls to action in 2020 and 2021 around food and agricultural systems topics. This compendium is intended as a summary document of the political statements of diverse youth groups; it is not a political statement in itself but seeks to synthesize youth demands into a summary which can guide future actionable solutions for and led by youth.

This zero draft of the WFF Compendium is a first attempt at the synthesis of many diverse youth voices. The Working Group creating this report recognizes that many youth policy statements were unable to be analyzed for this zero draft; these should be included in the next round of analysis, and we ask the community to bring youth food and agriculture political statements for analysis to the attention of the working group. We also encourage inputs on displaying trends and themes in youth statements without homogenizing naturally heterogeneous documents and the constituents they represent.