Wageningen Youth Institute
The Wageningen Youth Institute inspires and activates high school students in global food security topics. “How do we feed the world in a fair, sustainable and healthy way in 2050 when the world population rises to 10 billion?”
Individual students
Join the World Food Prize Foundation's Global Challenge with students from all over the world! Wageningen Youth Institute invites you to write a short essay on a topic of your choice about feeding the world and to discuss it with fellow students and experts.
Teachers
Are you a teacher and do you want to inspire and activate your students in global food security topics? Wageningen Youth Institute is happy to help you with that! From individual student projects such as participating in a challenge to workshops in the classroom or a project week.
Global food security
There are many topics to choose from for your essay, such as Agro Food Robotics, Future-Proof Agriculture, Meat Substitutes, Food Waste, and Food Security/Distribution.
About Wageningen Youth Institute
Wageningen Youth Institute is part of Wageningen University & Research and the World Food Prize Foundation in the US. With the aim of inspiring and activating high school students worldwide in global food security issues. "How do we feed the world in a fair, sustainable and healthy way in 2050 when the world population rises to 10 billion?"
Mission
In 1986, Norman Borlaug (Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1970) founded The World Food Prize: An annual $500.000 award that recognizes breakthrough achievements in improving global food quality and availability. It is often called the 'Nobel Prize for Food and Agriculture
Dr. Borlaug also developed the World Food Prize Youth Institutes to engage high school and university students in the fight against hunger and introduce them to career paths in agriculture. The three-day Global Youth Institute in Des Moines, Iowa, annually selects exceptional students from around the world to participate.
Wageningen University & Research (WUR) hosted the first Youth Institute outside the USA in 2018. From that year onwards, the Wageningen Youth Institute has been organizing a yearly final, challenging students to find solutions to the pressing issue of global food security.
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