Tanzania, June 4 -- Uzbekistan. When Tadeo Ajuna speaks about agriculture, he does not sound like someone who entered farming by chance. The Ugandan youth leader and farmer says agriculture shaped his life from childhood, paid his school fees and ultimately influenced his career path.

"I was born by farmers. I grew up farming and my education was paid for through farming," said Mr Ajuna, Programme Coordinator at Young Professionals for Agricultural Development (YPARD), a global youth network operating in more than 62 countries.

Mr Ajuna told participants at a side event on Transforming food systems through regenerative landscape at the ongoing Eighth Global Environment Facility Assembly (GEF-8) in Samarkand, Uzbekistan that young people...