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When two young Rooted authors meet: Pratap Marode from Maharashtra, India weeding garlic with Ida Simonsen during a visit to Pluk! CSA in the Netherlands, April 2026. Both made a contribution to Rooted issue 4: ‘Youth leading the way in agroecology’. Photo: Ilaria Dereani

Editorial: Youth leading the way in agroecology

Across continents, languages and landscapes, young people are not waiting to be invited to transform food systems, they are already doing it through agroecology. The … read more >

Sarita Chaudhary harvesting radishes grown with agroecological practices and organic fertiliser in Kailali, Nepal. Photo: Social Work Institute/Agroecology Youth Network Nepal

Reclaiming roots: Youth leading the agroecology movement in Nepal

What started as concern about the future of farming is slowly turning into collective action. Young farmers in Nepal are building a nationwide network for … read more >

SKI Youth during field tour of Fambidzanai Training College in Zimbabwe. Photo: Omali Phiri

Becoming the architects of our own food system in Zambia

With more than half Zambia’s population under the age of 25, young people are choosing a different path than their parents. They are organising learning … read more >

Ida Simonsen as youth representative at a panel discussion “From policy to action: Youth shaping global agrifood systems” at the 2024 World Food Forum (WFF) flagship event in Rome. Photo: FAO World Food Forum

Performing youth participation: What young people learn and lose in global food governance

As a UN Youth Representative, Ida Simonsen witnessed how in many cases, youth participation in global food governance only serves to reproduce policymaking mechanisms that … read more >

A breakfast table arranged for World Food day celebrations in 2025, featuring many local sweets, savouries and fruits, along with seeds for sharing. Photo: Natasha Van-Hoff

Indigenous youth are rebuilding the future of Sri Lanka’s food system

Young people are taking on leadership roles in the Indigenous community in Rathugala, Sri Lanka. Against a backdrop of historical displacement, low incomes and high … read more >

Young farmers working on their diversified agroecological plots. Photo: JUDD

Congolese youth at the heart of the agroecological revolution

In many rural areas of the Democratic Republic of Congo, agriculture is both a promise and a challenge. Here, a new generation is emerging: young … read more >

Synawiku Izquierdo Torres, an Iku (Arhuaco) Indigenous man from the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, known by Indigenous People as Gonawindúa, the heart of the world. He looks toward the 'Black Line', a system of peripheral sacred spaces where acts of care and spiritual work are carried out for the territory, the body, family, food, health, and the Universe. Photo: Natalia Giraldo-Jaramillo, 2025

Editorial: Weaving resilience and resistance for systemic transformation

This edition of Rooted Magazine is published in conjunction with the 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum, a landmark convergence of grassroots movements and organisations from around … read more >

Dialogue on cooperativism. Photo: Partnership Youth Forum

Reclaiming land, restoring power: A grassroots path to a social and solidarity economy in Palestine

In the shadow of prolonged colonisation, fragmentation, systemic marginalisation, and ethnic cleansing, Palestinian communities continue to resist erasure through the daily act of rebuilding life … read more >

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