 with the government of Acre with WWF and then C4 to undertake a social environmental monitoring of some of the what they call green policies and other policies that have happened historically and then more recently through some of this impact evaluation type work that we're doing so we haven't had the impact yet but I think that's the kind of set up that you need you need to have the right people on board at the before you didn't because we're now going back to collect this this after data so we now have everybody interested in our findings so that early next year we can we're actually going to be able to get a policy brief right out there as soon as the results are done and people are already asking for it so that's the kind of ideal position that you want to be in let's keep our fingers crossed that this actually will work but there are many other impact stories that have already happened from C4 and other other centers okay thanks so much for your question your question was about how these are translated you know approach actually we've gotten support from the local authorities and environmental authorities such as national environmental authority and they are providing us with the data so that is something that we initially thought we will do it alone but now they are coming on board so you realize we are doing it at the grass root level and they feel the impact of it so they are now coming on board and in a way we are now growing so thank you so much thanks a team you want to answer the question about capacity building in the face of governments that are not supportive of the youth thank you so much um the government of course it involved people and when the government doesn't give you support the community of course will suffer the consequences of a problem at hand and if you have people who are endured with information people who got opportunities to go to school they have got to change their society and capacity building so it's not about only of course giving training if we are if you have like-minded people in society people who are concerned about a course you can begin from that nuclear and that was how we began from a small nuclear then it will it will actually spread into the bigger community the component of mentoring in youth is very important that's one thing which is very big mentoring mentoring mentoring I am like this because I was mentored and I'm still being mentored and the mentoring that is in me goes out I'm also mentoring others so I think that's what I can say okay I want to add into something what Oteema said when it comes to capacity building and this is based on my personal experience of facilitating capacity building especially in the youth one thing I want to realize is that if we personally involve ourselves in the in capacity building them and be part of them so that they don't feel the distance then they will actively participate in it and one of the things that if we do if we develop ideas which are interested in the youth you will realize actually you will have you will gain a lot especially when it comes to capacity building and even using the social media the way the Alia presenter in the morning did that was Joseph using social media we are able to capacity building them so it's not only being physically they are doing it but also we can involve in those ways that have are of great interest to the youth thank you thank you I'll take a couple of questions again okay if there are no questions I have a couple of my own just maybe too easy and to the rest of the panel when we're talking about mentoring you know this has come up quite a bit but do we have enough role models in this field that can be able to become mentors to young people or is it something that also needs to be looked at yeah I mean I definitely think there's enough people but and are enough people putting themselves forward to be mentors definitely not I think that more people can become engaged and realize that they have something to offer and offer other people and and also with mentorship I think it's really important to keep things up like there's no point having a sort of flash in the pan approach but it's about being able to contribute to something over time so you can build something with someone and essentially have a skills exchange and but yeah I definitely say that it's in that if if you feel that you have something to to offer or if you if a situation resonates with you then mentoring is the best way forward as long as it's also sort of sustainable so I'd say sort of sustainable mentorship is is sort of the most positive I think thank you Amy you talked about the fact that we need a different breed of scientists and that probably the youth now will be the the best to sort of understand the links between science policy and the needed actions from your experience at CIFL is there some sort of program that is designed to build up upcoming scientists well I I mean I think that it's not it's it's much bigger than CIFL I mean I think that as soon as you can see a model for something you know it's possible I mean you know when people say scientists can't communicate well some of the best scientists I know are the best communicators as soon as you see someone who can do that you know that that it's that you can do it I mean and there are many graduate programs actually and undergraduate programs that I know of all over the world where there's a lot of this kind of innovation happening you know I can think of people a group in South Africa group in Brazil a group in the Netherlands a group in Florida and the United States I mean there's lots of groups that a lot of this kind of training for young scientists the innovation for young scientists is coming out of coming out of these these academic programs and so I think the more evidence we have of these kinds of changes then then it just keeps going and it becomes the norm instead of the exception the question to Steven you spoke about how we should use the little that we have to set processes going but I think as the youth we usually want big solutions to our problems so how do we inspire or motivate young people to be able to use the little that they have okay thank you so much for that question when we talk of little resources is that for all for a very long time we do cry that we need funding so well when I talk of the little resources is that we can begin with the little that we have with time you realize people now come on board and support us in our case we realize now the government is coming on board and sure soon we will even get people to support us in our work so it is just beginning where we have noting the problem and having the seal to go ahead and solve look for a solution to for the problem it begins at that grassroot level but I'm sure if you have that urge in you to to bring change definitely with the little resources you are able to transform so it's using whatever we have and then expanding it with time so that is the what I meant I can only use the little resources that we have thank you thank you are there any questions from the audience before I pose my last one to a team okay a team when you were making your presentation you talked about how the radius where you come from they were talking about reconciliation and peace building and that they were not talking about the second war and that you approach them to start talking about the second war my question is is there enough interest in those radio programs that you have started because sometimes you know listenership goes down even people interacting with the with the program it goes down but from your experience how has been the responses radio doing a good job in getting people to talk about the second war thank you so much actually I'm I talked in around four different reduced communication is all about the information for passion to change and the way you think it will depend on the message you send to a passion the message is very important and what happened with me was that of course I spoke in all those radio and you were asking about the impact of the talks yes it was there and it all depended on the message I was passing to the audience listening and and you don't just need me to talk but you have got to follow up I had a mechanism of follow up when when and one thing which I did was that I would you should encourage feedback in a radio you have got to actually let the call us I mean the audience call so that they tell you they tell you that part of the story they tell you I mean you know the nitty gritty of the problem with the problem and in fact they will even tell you more they will tell you more practical ways of addressing the problem so I'm telling me it depends on the information of the message filtering it and telling it to the audience you intend you know the message thank you team if there are no further questions I think I'll just like to ask our panelists to just give us brief take home messages before we end the session we'll start with easy could you not hear any of that no so I'll say that again it wasn't that good anyway so it's just as well the microphone was on my brief and concise this time take home message would be that you must be and can be empowered and that really there are no barriers to action we should just not make any excuses groups should be organized from the core and and really it's about perseverance and support through mentorship and the right programs and inspiration and that's the message thanks okay thank you for me my home message is the skills that we have it may seem very technical but if we engage the youth they are very enthusiastic to learn about it so we go and train them they are ready to land and to use that to transform our landscape the other thing is we need to let us not cry about having a lot of resources let's use what we have so for our case if you have time spend with the youth if you have special skills that you can use go and use with the youth if you have resources in terms of money or something like that take and support the youth that is the best way that we can actually engage the youth in transforming our landscape thank you thank you so much we're talking about a little involvement in youth in landscape sector let us reach out to the youth let us make this forum to reach out to the youth they are eager to come I mean to participate to contribute in the course let us take the natural curiosity about science in the youth and we build from there if we do that then we'll get there thank you I guess mine is that you know for the the young researchers teach us what this new climate change scientist should look like you know show us how to effectively bridge biophysical and social scientists show us how to work across sectors show us how to engage civil society and research how to to link our work to the policy realm this is this is still this is not we're not where we want to be and we need new models new experiences new stories to be able to to to make us all better scientists thank you Amy and thank you to our panelists join me in thanking the panelists thank you so much for the moving stories for the inspiring words and for the encouragement for young people to get more engaged in agriculture forest and landscapes in general and thank you to the audience for being such a lovely audience can I test you again when I say GLF you say okay you're not sleeping that's all right so before we end up we have a special guest Bruce Campbell from sea calves who has a few words for us good so I was really impressed that almost none of the speakers use many PowerPoints which is power points like killing our ability to orate and talk but then I just ask your forgiveness that I want to show you three images so this is the first image and 20 90 scientists do these projections to 2000 2100 20 90s really far away but I found a 25 year old and if she agrees to have children on the schedule that I'm going to propose to her and if and if her children have children on that schedule her grandchild will be only 30 years old when this materializes this is a four degree warmer world that we're heading towards I'm a Zimbabwean and as you can see Zimbabwe is dark gray a 20 percent decline in the growing season I've worked as small holders in Zimbabwe for 20 years under incredibly harsh conditions where almost you say the only thing to do is to get out of the landscape because it's so tough 20 percent decline in growing season is just it's it would kill the continent as you can see gray over large areas of the content 5 to 20 percent declines the light gray on vast other areas the green or the few patches where things may improve slightly in terms of growing season now there's highly uncertainty these these kinds of projections but this is potentially where we heading towards now let's compare that to what's happening at the negotiations in 2009 there was some text on agriculture calling for more work on agriculture and it didn't go anywhere in 2010 there was a similar kind of text and it didn't go anywhere 2011 was historic in that agriculture was mentioned in a single sentence in the Durban agreement and that sentence was let's refer the work to subster for a decision at COP historic mean almost no movement but historic 2011 in Doha no movement and I can already tell you now there's zero movement on agriculture at this cop as well so you just want to on you know on Wednesday when I was watching what was going on you want to give up on it because it's impossible so if you just go to the next one so I totally agree this is the youth statement in 2010 you've been negotiating all my life you cannot tell me you need more time the progress that we see in this negotiations is just impossible we have to get on and do things and there's no no group better to do it than the youth so I totally support this kind of activism and the best group to do it is the youth I'm a scientist and I was supposed to pick my words very carefully I must be sober about it I must be academic and I must publish it in nature and science but I think it's time to speak out and be more militant and this is a great article if you can just look at the next slide it's in new statements how science is is telling us to revolt and there's some nice stories in there about how scientists have reached the end of their tether and agree that the only way forward is revolution so I invite you to initiate the revolution I'm impressed by the passion that the speakers showed this afternoon I think there's huge responsibility actually on the youth to actually change the world because the seniors have not left the world in a good place and by the time Temby's grandchildren are 30 we do not want that first picture on the on the PowerPoint so I'm completely behind these proposed outcomes I heard the youth can and must be empowered we must use whatever resources we've got and and really make action on the ground we Amy we must revolutionize research research must be in a completely different way completely different metrics in terms of how it's how it's measured and I come from sea caps which is the climate change agriculture and food security program of the CG which I lead and we're trying to do some of those things to change really change the metrics to put large amounts of effort into communications to to have a real responsibility to work with partners in a proper proper way and not return not be found out that you're the first researcher to come back to a village so I think it was a really inspiring session this afternoon that I this morning that I heard it's lifted my spirits after I heard the state of the negotiations and so I thank you and I invite you to revolt thank you Bruce yes to the revolution I'm going to start it myself so before we end off there's been an ongoing competition that has been running and Peter is going to announce the winners of that competition at my age I need to change your glasses thank you Timby but I have something else also to say one of the messages that also I took home from this session is that change starts with me each of you each of what we as individuals can do and I tell you a story of how actually this youth session happened the GLF was being planned already a year ago and we didn't have a space for you so the network of young professionals and agriculture research stepped up and said hey wouldn't it be cool if we actually start a GLF with the youth session but in that it is not why part the network you know which is not an abstract thing but it's two people Courtney and Marina could you step up these are the two phases could you step up please these are the two people then and took the initiative and say hey we're gonna change things we are young and we're gonna take those for a ride in this revolution and then we went to the organizers and we went to see for and see calves and and said would you mind and I said by all means and then Michelle stepped up Michelle Michelle from C4 said I'm gonna help I'm young I'm gonna do Bruce's revolution I'm gonna help and then we had Cecilia are you here Cecilia Schubert and then we had another young person from Seacaps and said I'm young I'm gonna do Bruce's revolution I'm gonna step up Cecilia and then Thunder Pan says we're in you know we got time be she raps their rap at that moment was no agriculture no deal no are you ready no agriculture no agriculture and now it's GLF Cop 19 there we go there we go there we go there we go but all of that is all fine this was all in our minds you know when we having a drink together but it also takes money and it takes some funding so why part the two people did the call for funding and we're all talking about two months before the the the forum itself two months before the forum none of this was in there so they went around and they actually got funding from CGR the global agriculture research partnership from GFAR the global forum for agriculture research and from CTA the technical center for agriculture and rural cooperation I mentioned their names we're good now and then we said okay well you know what let's live life on a dangerous road we're gonna make a call for young people to speak up we're gonna give a platform it came out in this form young people need to have a platform to speak up and we made a call on our websites we distributed via Twitter and Facebook and we gave people young people over the world a three weeks deadline to submit a proposal to come here as a speaker a three weeks deadline we thought yeah you know 20 maybe 30 proposals we're gonna get we got 150 of them from people really across the globe they're all on the landscape the door website have a read and each of those submissions actually described a project and the cause that these young people are working on or are passionate about and we were really impressed about the diversity of these submissions and how these young people around the world often with the minimum of resource it was a story of a young person in India who allocated part of their his study funds his study allowance to fund his own project in conservation of coastal land in India now we had this 150 submissions we could only fly a couple of these people into into Poland into the GLF so we published all of these submissions on the website and we asked people to vote in a way to give visibility to these proposals and we thought if you're gonna get a thousand you know votes it would be fine we got 13,344 votes we just counted them last night 13,344 votes for those 150 submissions so now here are the top five submissions they will get a price from the public it was proposal number 97 the potential of introducing agriculture to children which is from Muftatur Ritzky from Indonesia the second one is number 89 the entrepreneurship skills for forestry students from Marika Tarina Bekara Lial from Colombia then submission number 67 a youth led collective to educate and empower youth in environmental issues from Samara as a value from Colombia entry number 24 and now we're going already above the 2000 threshold vote more than 2000 votes for teaching communities on recycling deforestation and environmental protection from Gabbo confidence mapot see from Republic of South Africa and the winner the absolute winner was Isaac from Kenya on mentorship training programs for farmers youth and women you will see them on announced on the landscape website these top five voted submissions we get a price from public they will get a copy of the book one billion hungry from sir Gordon Conway a book which explains issues related to this conference which explains many interrelated issues which are critical to our food supply and the book will be sent by agriculture for impact one of our sponsoring organizations they will also get a signed copy of the CJR a year report signed by the CEO of the CJR consortium and get the white part is the white part t-shirts and the notebook these are the five winners I thank you again for all of those that voted on the Alliance submissions 13,344 excellent and I hand it back again to you to me you left 19 so congratulations to the winners and to close off I'd like to thank you all for participating for the contributions for the ideas and I just want to assure you that this is not the end of the conversation and this is not the end of the ideas that were generated we are going to develop an outcome document which is going to be on the white part websites going to be developed by white part but also some of the outcomes from this meeting are going to go into the big outcome statement of the global landscapes forum which is then going to be handed over to the United Nations UNF triple C secretariat so I think our voices as the youth are being had which is a good thing and once again if you want to continue giving feedback if you want to continue maybe you think of something as you walk out of here you can just go to landscapes.org and give your feedback there so thank you to the organizers and the partners that have supported this whole process we will now be moving straight to the opening session which is in the auditorium which is on your right as you go out so those that haven't grabbed their lunch packs please grab them outside and then proceed to the main opening session thank you so much