World Food Forum (WFF) Young Chefs Programme 2026-2027 – YOA

Deadline: November 16, 2025

Applications are open for the World Food Forum (WFF) Young Chefs Programme 2026-2027. The World Food Forum (WFF)’s Young Chefs Programme (YCP) equips cooks (aged 18-35) with abilities, information and networks to take a number one function in remodeling agrifood programs by culinary practices.

From advancing higher diet to selling meals safety and biodiversity, its final aim is to create leaders that may encourage and information different cooks to advocate for extra sustainable and more healthy consumption habits. Each participant will probably be paired with a mentor from the World Association of Chefs’ Societies community.

Young Chefs Programme (YCP) Pillars

• Capacity Development
  • Participants will find out about quite a lot of matters, together with meals programs considering, sustainable diet, meals security, gender responsive diet and extra, to develop their technical information and change into brokers of change for agrifood programs transformation.
  • Participants will find out about these matters by on-line masterclasses delivered by technical consultants from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and accomplice organizations. Each participant will probably be paired with a mentor from the World Association of Chefs’ Societies community.
• Advocacy
  • Participants will probably be inspired to develop public consciousness campaigns and social media content material to encourage these inside their communities and past to take motion.
  • Participants will symbolize the programme at excessive-stage occasions and world fora, together with the WFF flagship occasion to advocate for higher diet, meals safety and biodiversity.
• Local Action
  • Participants will formulate tasks of their communities.
  • These tasks will probably be developed with the help of mentors to handle native agrifood programs wants, primarily based on individuals’ native perception and expertise. Additionally, these tasks will handle the related regional priorities of the WFF Youth Assembly’s Global Youth Action Plan (GYAP).

Eligibility

• Applicants should be a culinary skilled of not less than 18 years of age and no older than 35 by 16 November 2025;
• Have dependable web connection;
• Have not less than one lively social media account that can be utilized for YCP advocacy and outreach actions;
• Demonstrate a dedication to sustainable gastronomy, both by culinary apply or advocacy efforts;
• Have enough proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Be capable of dedicate between 16–20 hours monthly to the function;
• Not be a direct member of the family (partner, mum or dad, child, siblings or in-legislation) of a FAO worker; and
• Not be employed by FAO however might be part of WFF Youth Initiative actions (E.g. YPB, YSG, YRP and many others).

Application

Documents required to be uploaded signed working protocol; up to date CV (ought to embody related volunteer {and professional} expertise and/or tutorial expertise); an expert headshot; and a brief video (most two minutes) elaborating on how the candidate would contribute to the YCP.

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For extra data, go to WFF Young Chefs Programme.