LEAF Education has launched its latest Impact Report, which reveals how its work is delivering meaningful, experiential learning opportunities for young people to embed a better understanding of the agri-food industry.
LEAF Education has launched its latest Impact Report, which reveals how its work is delivering meaningful, experiential learning opportunities for young people to embed a better understanding of the agri-food industry.
Some highlights from the report include:
In a foreword to the Impact Report, HRH The Duchess of Edinburgh GCVO and Honorary President of LEAF, explained: "It has been my privilege to witness firsthand how LEAF Education have opened the eyes of so many young people to the world of opportunities in the agrifood sector. In the past year alone, I have seen countless times how direct, hands-on farm experiences can transform someone’s thinking, and give us all a much deeper understanding of the relationship between food production and planetary health.
“LEAF Education’s goal is to raise young people’s
aspirations, to champion exciting career opportunities available in the food
sector, and ensure we are all better informed as a society about how our
personal food choices can make a difference to sustainability and climate
change. The achievements outlined in these pages illustrate the positive
progress we have made on that journey. I am so grateful to everyone who has
made this important work possible, and I look forward to seeing what more we
can achieve together in the months and years to come.”
Carl Edwards, LEAF Director, Education and Public Engagement, summarised:
“We are proud to empower young people to have a voice, provide them with the opportunity to listen, learn and experience, all while questioning them, in order to help drive true systematic change. The impact of our work and that of the agri-food industry can, and does, lead to positive outcomes for all - from providing young people with the opportunity to visit a farm and see how their food is produced, to working in partnership and collaborating with organisations to develop conscious future consumers who appreciate sustainable food production and farming practices, and consider how their personal food choices can have a climate positive impact."
“Over this last year we continue to be overwhelmed by the engagement of like-minded organisations, individual farmers, educators and more, with whom we have built a strong working relationship that has delivered these incredible results and real, tangible outcomes. We look forward to how we develop these relationships further over the coming year and beyond as the agri-food industry’s partner of choice in delivering meaningful education and wider public engagement opportunities. We are here to lead, to convene, to measure and to deliver transformative change.”