Youth have vast learning abilities and creativity that should be played upon when developing sustainability model that include positive social change. In 2011, the Community Agroecology Network (CAN) developed a Youth Network for Food Security and Food Sovereignty (Jovenes SSAN) to promote youth leadership opportunities in order to involve younger generations create transformative food systems. The youth network has expanded from its coffee sites in Nicaragua and Mexico and has included university students from Veracruz and Quintana Roo. Connecting and training youth leaders across multiple project initiatives deepens knowledge and capacity, creating beneficial exchange and innovation within each of the associated communities. The youth network comes together annually as an 8 day conference known as Intercambio, (Exchange) which has become a platform for knowledge exchange on strategies and models for achieving food sovereignty. A similar food security initiative is being developed in Santa Cruz County. Last spring (2014) FoCAN held a local intercambio “Beyond Organic” in which they brought multiple workers in the food systems into one panel. Impacts The Youth Network has had four annual exchanges and two regional exchanges. In concluding the intercambio, youth leaders have expressed a strong desire to continue expanding the youth network, receive more training in agroecology, and build stronger national and international ties. Exploring trade markets in Cosmotepec. 4th Annual Intercambio Veracruz Mexico
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