Megan and her sister Bronwen have both taken Act4Food Act4Change’s pledge.  The Pledge involves agreeing to 10 Actions which young people want governments and business to take to fix our food system. This list has been created by youth and voted on by over 100,000 young people globally!

The actions are:

1.    Everyone should be able to afford healthy and nutritious food
2.    Back sustainable farming to regenerate our soils and reduce damaging chemicals
3.    Every child should eat a healthy and sustainable meal at school, college or nursery
4.    Educate everyone about food and its impact on our planet and our health
5.    Stop and reverse land-use conversion, including deforestation
6.    Ban single-use plastics in food and drink packaging
7.    Value local and indigenous food knowledge
8.    Create employment for young farmers and agri-preneurs
9.    Protect food production from political disruption, conflicts and the effects of climate change
10.  Support local growers and food producers with subsidies and tax incentives

Act4Food Act4Change is a youth-led and initiated campaign that mobilises the power of young people to call for a global food system which provides everyone with access to safe, affordable and nutritious diets, while simultaneously protecting nature, tackling climate change and promoting human rights.  So far 160,105 have pledged.  

You can take the pledge and find out more from their website.  https://actions4food.org/en/

The pledge

We know our current food systems contribute to ongoing health, climate and biodiversity crises, and violation of human rights. We will only be able to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals with a fundamental transformation of our food systems.

While we as young people have been excluded from most political and economic decision-making processes, we are also the ones who will live the longest with the consequences of decisions made today.

We pledge to act. And we demand urgent large-scale action from others, especially from decision-makers in government and business.

As youth we #Act4Food #Act4Change to support #GoodFoodForAll

To find out more about Megan and The Food Squad, you can email ljwilliams@cetma.org.uk, search @CETMAWales or @Meganandthefoodsquad
on Facebook, or ring 01554227540. 

To find out more about CETMA and the work it does, please visit: www.cetma.org.uk

Tags: Food and drink, Environment, Agriculture, Community, Cooperation