The 16 Days of Global Action on Agroecology is an annual campaign organised and participated in by PAN Asia Pacific and its partners, networks, agroecology advocates and small food producers’ movements. Held from 1 to 16 October, the 16-day campaign is a series of community-initiated awareness-raising, campaigning and advocating for food systems transformation and asserting food sovereignty and climate justice. 

This year, youth takes the centrestage and leads the assertion of agroecology as a climate solution and as the most viable food and agriculture system for the future. Amid the worsening crises of hunger, poverty, landlessness and climate change, the youth play very important roles in pushing for  agroecology as a viable solution to the crises, and in the continuing struggle for food sovereignty. They march on along with women and rural peoples the world over. They carry the torch and lead the way to strengthening food sovereignty movements, radically transforming food systems and asserting climate justice all over the world.