IYD 2021 CAMPAIGN

CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS

Campaign Theme

A GLIMPSE ON Transforming Food Systems

THE IYD 2021
CAMPAIGN Youth Innovation for Human and
Planetary Health
Assignments
Outreach An online campaign by UNV India's V-Force Volunteers
Impact CAMPAIGN DATES-2-15 AUGUST 2021

V-Force, an initiative of UN Volunteers India, is a platform

Learn
of online volunteers to network, collaborate and promote
volunteerism through community engagement, reaching
out to people from all ages, backgrounds, and skills, and
Act
integrating them into a range range of activities centering
around the Sustainable Development Goals.
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About the theme
Food systems include not only the basic elements of how we get
food from farms to the table, but also all of the processes and
infrastructure involved in feeding a population, and the negative
externalities that can be generated during the process, such as
air and ocean pollution as well as desertification.

Population health is also key in addressing food systems

challenges, especially as nutrition-related chronic diseases such
as obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some forms of
cancer are major contributors to the global burden of disease.

Youth engagement is key to the transformation of food systems

as they play a crucial role working towards the implementation
of the Sustainable Development Goals and related frameworks.

IYD 2021 campaign spotlighted youth engagement by :

1. Raising commitment of youth & highlighting youth-led

innovative, entrepreneurial ideas around the theme, and
educating key stakeholders on the work being done by youth
for the transformation of food systems, for tackling health and
climate challenges.

2. Highlighting central role of youth as fundamental

contributors and partners in new, innovative solutions and its
implementation, for promoting sustainable value chains for
the planet and healthy lifestyles.

Sustainable Food System

& SDGs
In 2015, world leaders agreed to 17 Global Goals (officially
known as the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs).
These goals have the power to create a better world by
2030, by ending hunger, good health and well being and
addressing the urgency of climate change.

The sustainable food systems don’t just help to end

hunger. They can help the world achieve critical progress
on all 17 Sustainable Development Goals.
Guided by the goals, it is now up to all of us,
governments, businesses, civil society and the general
public to work together to build a better future for
everyone.

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 Learn

Our Volunteers Learned About

Eating Smarter or
Promoting Volunteerism
Eating Sustainable Diet

Food Wastage Sustainable Food Systems &

SDGs

Issue of Malnutrition-
Action for Climate Change
Health, Nutrition

Role of Youth in Climate Solutions

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 Learn

Our Volunteers Learned About different

aspects of FOOD SYSTEM

Reading Global Food Policy Report on 2021 Attending Youth Festival

Attending Webinars
organized by UNV India

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Our Volunteers Acted on the critical issues by:

Participating in the campaign
Completing the tasks

Eat Smarter

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 SPREADING THE WORD
ACT
Be a Food Hero
Action for Climate Change

Eat Smarter

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 Engage

Our Volunteers Engaged with People

Raised Awareness & Engaged in Dialogues about
transforming food system and the critical issues around it-
Health-Nutrition
Zero Food-Wastage
Climate change
Biodiversity Loss

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ZERO FOOD-WASTAGE HEALTH-NUTRITION

BIODIVERSITY LOSS CLIMATE CHANGE

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 WHAT DOES OUR V-FORCE
CAMPAIGN OUTREACH VOLUNEERS HAVE TO SAY ?

MORE THAN 2500 VOLUNTEERS

The IYD2021 campaign helped me
REGISTERED! to understand our environment
better and how we as human
beings can help to protect and
19 TASKS GIVEN OVER 3 ONLINE nurture the same in so many,
easy ways.
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Ashween Kaur Malhotra

LEARNING ACTIVITIES
"IYD2021 Campaign helped me to
to understand how we can bring
SOCIAL MEDIA OUTREACH a major change of future by
taking small step today. It was an
excellent learning opportunity
V-FORCE VOLUNTEERS REACHED from a wide domain including
Malnutrition to biodiversity. It has
OUT TO MORE THAN 135000 helped me to spread awareness
among my contacts to create a
PEOPLE THROUGH FB, INSTAGRAM better world with the help of
youth participation."-Saptarshi
LINKEDIN AND TWITTER AND Roy

EDUCATED THEM ABOUT DIFFERENT

Throughout the campaign, I got
ASPECTS OF FOOD SYSTEMS know to an insight about the
importance of working towards
more equitable food systems. In
OVER 5000 ORGANIC addition, I got the knowledge
about the need for youth to make
REACTIONS,VIEWS COMMENTS & informed decisions on food
choices through increasing global
SHARES ON THE SOCIAL MEDIA education on the healthiest and
most sustainable options for both
POSTS
individuals and the environment.-
Ayushi Kharayat

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