Young Farmers Dance Challenge Awards Ceremony

When COVID-19 broke out, many jobs were stopped, except food production, which could not be halted. Food is an essential service, and farmers and food producers kept working amid the threat of the virus. However, farmers are among the least recognized in this time of the pandemic, at times taken for granted despite their important responsibility of feeding the world.

Despite the lack of recognition, farmers continued their critical work, ensuring that food remained available to everyone. To highlight their invaluable contributions and to bring attention to their efforts, we turned to a creative and engaging approach. Through dancing, we challenged our young food heroes to show how small-scale farmers and food producers are helping recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and their contributions to preventing the spread of the virus.

The Young Farmers Dance Challenge is aimed at:

Attracting young people to join Farmers’ Organizations
Building friendship and cooperation among young farmers
Raising awareness about young farmers’ contribution to preventing the spread of COVID-19 as well as their contribution to the recovery from the pandemic

Thirteen young farmers’ groups from different countries in Asia bravely took the challenge and showed us what they got. Watch this video: