Digital Innovation & AI
Shaping inclusive digital agendas and closing the digital divide facing young women farmers.
A youth-led bridge between grassroots realities and global agrifood advocacy.
The 4Better Global Coalition brings underrepresented voices into the rooms where food-systems policy is shaped, aligned with the FAO Four Betters framework.
A multi-stakeholder platform built by young scientists, for the communities global advocacy usually overlooks.
The coalition grew out of an inter-cohort collaboration: alumni of previous Young Scientists Group (YSG) cohorts, members of YSG Cohort 3, partner organizations, and the Global Coalition for Better, joining forces to turn lived experience into evidence that reaches global platforms.
Today it works as a strategic partner to World Food Forum (WFF) Headquarters, leading consultations on digital innovation and contributing grassroots data, case studies, and analysis across land tenure, trade, and resilient livelihoods.
Its distinct value is reach: mobilizing grassroots organizations, youth groups, and small-scale actors so that global advocacy outputs are grounded in real conditions, not only in the perspectives already represented at the table.
Why the coalition exists
Women farmers, especially young women, are central to food production, nutrition, and local economies, yet face structural barriers to land, technology, finance, and decision-making. Agrifood systems are under mounting pressure from technological change, geopolitical instability, and climate stress.
6%
of bilateral agriculture and rural-development funding places gender equality at the core of its objectives, though more than half accounts for gender in some form.
+58M
people could see improved livelihoods and higher incomes if development programs prioritized women's empowerment.
+235M
more people could gain strengthened resilience through the same shift toward women-centered programming.
Source: FAO (2023), as cited in the coalition's IYWF 2026 concept note.
Vision
Agrifood advocacy shaped by young women and youth, where grassroots evidence informs the frameworks that govern food systems.
Working statement, drawn from the coalition's stated aim. To be confirmed by the coalition.
Five missions
Evidence generation
Gather and synthesize country-level data, scientific findings, and grassroots case studies into advocacy briefs on gender equity, technology, land tenure, and financing.
Youth empowerment
Recognize youth and young women as agents of change, amplifying their voices and lived experiences through storytelling and active engagement.
Collaboration
Convene grassroots networks, young professionals, and partner organizations, connecting underrepresented actors to global and regional processes.
Agrifood transformation
Advance just, inclusive, and resilient agrifood systems for healthy diets and sustainable livelihoods, embedding women farmers across every theme.
Knowledge exchange
Translate consultation inputs and advocacy outputs into recommendations and knowledge products for youth constituencies, governments, and global platforms.
The Four Betters framework
The coalition's work maps to the four pathways of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Four Betters, with youth acting as the bridge between innovation, advocacy, and community realities.
Better Production
Inclusive access to technology and innovation so that productive, sustainable practices reach small-scale and young women farmers, not only large operators.
Better Nutrition
Food systems that deliver healthy diets, drawing on the central role women farmers play in household nutrition and diet quality.
Better Environment
Resilience against climate stress and biodiversity loss, informed by the environmental stewardship of farming communities on the ground.
Better Life
Secure land tenure, fair financing, and social protection, so that resilient livelihoods and equitable value chains follow from the work.
Four pillars of work
Interlinked themes that carry the framework into practice.
Youth & Young Women Empowerment
Gender equity, secure land tenure, and social protection, backed by country-level data.
Geopolitics, Trade & Financing
Localized insight on how global dynamics impact young women farmers and value chains.
Transformative Agrifood Systems
Case studies of young women farmers driving healthy diets and resilient livelihoods.
Join the coalition.
Whether you’re an individual or an organization, there’s a place for you in the Four Betters movement.