Harnessing Youth Potential for Transforming Kenya’s Food Systems

By:
Panam Parikh, Rebecca Korir, Angela Gitau, Miriam Shindler
Date:
2025

This brief highlights the vital role Kenyan youth can play in driving a nutrition-sensitive and climate-resilient food system. While youth contribute actively at community level, they remain under-represented in formal governance. The brief calls for structured engagement through youth advisory panels, strengthened county-to-national representation pathways, and better coordination across ministries. It also recommends building leadership pipelines through training, fellowships, and integration of youth priorities into national food system policies.