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Deadline: June 20, 2025
The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) is accepting applications for the 2025 Entrepreneurship and Food Security Training for young innovators. This fully funded capacity-building program empowers youth leaders and changemakers across the globe to tackle the pressing challenges of food insecurity through innovative entrepreneurial solutions.
Designed to promote sustainable agriculture, food system innovation, and entrepreneurship, this initiative equips participants with the tools, knowledge, and mentorship needed to transform ideas into viable business ventures that address hunger and food resilience.
Whether you’re working on climate-smart agriculture, agro-tech, food waste reduction, or rural food access, this program is tailored to accelerate impact-driven solutions for global food security.
Program Details
By the end of the programme, participants will be able to apply the following skills:
Economic and Employment-Related Skills
- Use entrepreneurial methodologies, tools and best practices to develop solutions for food security challenges and introduce innovative concepts.
- Identify alternative sources of employment and opportunities for livelihood during economic downturns and periods of food scarcity.
- Apply strategic management and innovation techniques and tools to their projects/initiatives.
- Evaluate value chains to pinpoint key areas to address food insecurity, considering their anticipated outcomes, resource utilization and impact on other public health, economic and gender equality issues.
Technical and Innovation Skills
- Identify appropriate technological innovations, including climate-resilient agricultural and aquacultural practices and uses of digital technologies, including AI, to overcome environmental obstacles, bolster community resilience and tackle food insecurity.
Collaboration and Partnership Skills
- Establish and sustain public-private partnerships and facilitate connections between grassroots/smallholder farmers and local/regional markets, enabling access to: Local, regional and global supply chains.
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Eligibility Criteria
- Women and youth in Egypt, Iraq or Lebanon
- Age: 18-40
- Entrepreneurs, aspiring entrepreneurs, innovators, and recent graduates
- Those who have an existing business and would like to acquire more knowledge to scale their operations
- Those who do not have an existing business but have a concrete idea that can be developed into a business
Women and men from disadvantaged backgrounds and involved in agribusiness are especially encouraged to apply
