Youth
25
2023 youth fellows
1
Practise changed
5
Initiatives established
In sub-Saharan Africa, fewer than 1 in 10 young people own a plot of land.
One in three adults owns land in the same region. The breakdown of youth with land rights is grimmer when accounting for gender. While women own less than 15% of the world's land, young women are less than half as likely as young men to own land by themselves.
The fight for youth land rights is complicated by the fact that rural youth -- and especially women – are often excluded from institutions that provide access to financial services, denying them credit, savings, and insurance.
Especially in rural areas, skill development opportunities, education, or resources such as land are scarcely accessible.
Supporting youth to make their voices heard can bring about lasting, long-term change. We work to empower and harness the potential of youth to lead a transformation towards people-centred land governance, equipping them with the skills and knowledge necessary to be the leaders of tomorrow.
Explore our youth-led peoples' organisations
5
ORGANISATIONS
1,3M+
PEOPLE REPRESENTED
5
COUNTRIES
Indigenous Youth resist land grabbing in Bangladesh
Global Land Forum Youth
In May 2022, Over 100 young people between 18 and 35 travelled Jordan from 35 countries to attend the first ever Global Land Forum Youth (GLFY).
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Youth movement emerges offering a pathway to climate solutions
download the declarationYouth and Leadership Programme
ILC seeks to empower and harness the potential of youth to bring about transformation towards people-centred land governance.
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Meet our 2023-2024 youth fellows
We are cultivating the next generation of leaders to build a vision from people-centred land governance, and to take action now for a more sustainable and just world.
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Behind the headlines
Rural youth in Latin America and the Caribbean. We are land and territory
11 May 2022
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Q’eqchi indigenous youth lead recovery of ancestral lands in Guatemala
24 January 2022
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Youth Leadership for Secured Land Rights and Strong Family Farming Systems
18 March 2022
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