 Youth is the driving engine to transform food systems. FAO, through its Small Holders Support Programme, has designed Apta, an entrepreneurship program designed according to international standards that tackled the two main constraints faced by Syrian youth, access to capacity building and access to finance. These sets of workshops allowed us to enhance the capacities of rural youth and women on how to design their own agribusinesses. Under the completion of the workshops, we identified the most suitable business proposals to be awarded with financial grants. With the financial resources we are going to provide them, they will be able to start up their businesses and contribute to the transformation of their local food systems. Today, on the occasion of the Youth Day, FAO is launching the Community of Practice for Young Entrepreneurs. This community is a platform where our grants beneficiaries will be able to share experiences, knowledge, good practices and face challenges in a collective way. This platform will allow us to have continuous feedback on the Apta program and to keep improving it in the long term.