*Theme: ‘Food Action Accelerates Climate Action’
‘The winners will have the opportunity to have their piece and art featured at the World Food Forum flagship event in Rome from October 16–20, 2023, allowing the writer/artist to promote their work, gain visibility, and facilitate networking with other attending participants across different tracks and events’
THE World Food Forum (WFF) is collaborating with the Nigeria-based Creative Youth Community Development Initiative – Solution17 (CYCDI-Solution17) for Climate Action in staging an ‘Art for Climate Change’ event at its 2023 session, holding in October at the Food and Agricultural Organisation, FAO headquarters in Italy.
In a media release on April 17, the CEO and Project Director of CYCDI-Solution17, Foluke Michael, stated that her organisation is excited about WFF Art for Climate Change, “designed to showcase Nigeria’s innovative artists, passionate about advocating for the protection of food systems and raising awareness for Solution 17 Climate Action in Africa.”
Lindsey Hook, the WFF Head of Culture and Communications, said the project “is looking for inspiring poetry or essays that will motivate and mobilise young people creatively and innovatively, to care for the environment whilst preparing them as food innovators, creators, and technologists.”
Explaining the context of the competitions, the media release stated further, “The effects of Climate Change on food and agriculture are unprecedented. It is reducing economic growth, raising food prices, decreasing food availability and causing conflict and instability across communities around the world.
“The challenges are affecting global agrifood systems and impacting both access to and availability of food. WFF, in partnership with Solution17, is raising global awareness and spurring everyone to action through sustainable, project-based art and culture exhibitions to inspire and galvanize widespread discussion and action around the 2023 WFF theme: “Food Action Accelerates Climate Action”.
To kickstart the project, Ms Michael said the “WFF is opening a call for submission of essays inspired by the 2023 theme, Food Action Accelerates Climate Action in collaboration with Solution17.”
For this essay competition, WFF and Solution 17, are looking for creative minds who pen pieces with depictions on Canvas on:
- Raising awareness of issues relating to agrifood systems, such as food security, healthy diets, planet-friendly agriculture, food supply chain imperfections, food loss and waste, sustainable packaging, the impact of the agri-food sector on people’s lives, sustainable socio-economic development and more.
- Art and Culture projects that generate global awareness for climate action projects and connect humanity with nature and innovative strategies that have been implemented to meet the 17 sustainable development goals of the 2030 agenda.
- Celebrating the work of inspiring individuals who, from farm to fork, participate in making healthy food available on everyone’s plates.
‘Submission is open to youth in Nigeria between the ages of 15 and 25. Interested entrants can apply and submit their essays here.
Successful applicants will be contacted for an interview by July 2023. Selected entrants with the best and most unique interpretation of their essays in painting format will be selected for the final rounds’, Ms Michael added.
The winners will have the opportunity to have their piece and art featured at the World Food Forum flagship event in Rome from October 16–20, 2023, allowing the writer/artist to promote their work, gain visibility, and facilitate networking with other attending participants across different tracks and events. Learn more here.
Contacts:
Ms Lindsey Hook – World Food Forum, FAO – [email protected] | Foluke Michael – Solution 17, CYCDI – [email protected]
