The #MyFoodOurFuture contest called on young people in two different age categories to submit a creative short film with their ideas and solutions that can help ensure the world has access to healthy, diverse, and affordable diets. Submissions came from every region of the world and were judged on the quality of the video presented and the potential of their solution to address food and nutrition security challenges in their neighborhoods, communities, and countries. And here’s what our winners had to say!
AGE CATEGORY 10 to 17
Country: Australia
Title: Pentassential
“We share a vision of a world where everyone has food on the table but know that this cannot be done without humankind willingly helping each other with their only reward being a better world.” – Hannah Yin and Hiya Shah
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“One way to ensure better access to healthy, diverse and afford able diets for everyone is by providing the tools of how to grow their fruits and vegetables with the tools our target population may have at school and home, and how to prepare healthy dishes with them.” – Alicia Mattenberger, Mariana Cortes, Claudia Garcia, Frida Garza
Country: Mexico
Title: Solving Hunger, Food Waste and Malnutrition
AGE CATEGORY 18 to 25
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“I work as a cook in activist catering....We use food that is unsold in markets to cook [for] coffee-breaks. The main part of our job is to tell people about food wasting.” – Nadezhda Putyakova
Country: Russia
Title: Food Will Save the World
AGE CATEGORY 18 to 25
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“Being an agriculture student, I see it as my responsibility to work on a project to ensure none in this world are left hungry and starved.” - Grace Tiwari
Country: Nepal
Title: Thrive for Change
AGE CATEGORY 18 to 25
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“I think that we must take care of our health ourselves. We should support farmers markets and people’s own home gardens — healthy food is the food which we make ourselves” – Maria Ivanova
Country: Russia
Title: Healthy Food
AGE CATEGORY 10 to 17
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“I had a feeling that aquaponics could be a solution for future micro-farming, and it needs to be promoted widely in India and across the world where there is a shortage of water.” – Johan Sanju Sebastian
Country: United Arab Emirates
Title: Farming for Our Future
AGE CATEGORY 10 to 17
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