The 4th Annual Youth Storytellers Field to Film Festival is inviting young people from smallholder, rural, and Indigenous farming families to document how their communities are transforming food systems through agroecology.
The festival runs until March 12 and is part of Groundswell International’s Youth Storyteller Program.
In honor of the United Nations’ International Year of the Woman Farmer, t...
The strongest version of this narrative centers on empowering rural youth, particularly young women, to document and reshape food systems through storytelling. It highlights systemic inequities—such as unequal resource access for women farmers—and positions youth as agents of change, not passive beneficiaries. The program’s expansion and the diversity of voices it amplifies are commendable, as is its focus on agroecology as a solution to environmental and social challenges.
However, the narrativ...