What is Back the Future?
Back The Future brings together, upskills, articulates, and amiplifies diverse youth voices to influence policy around a just transition in food and farming. This project connects six Ambassadors – young farmers, students, and youth food justice advocates – with the expertise and contacts needed to help them advocate for change. The Ambassadors shape and steer the Back The Future project with support from five partner organisations.
Our aims
- Equip Ambassadors with the awareness and skills needed to advocate, engage with democracy, and influence decision-making.
- Increase diversity within a just transition in food and farming by amplifying underrepresented youth voices.
- Provide decision-makers with opportunities to actively listen and respond to youth advocacy on food and farming.
Our ambassadors
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Megan Dunn
“I am a Soils and Natural Resources Assistant at Innovation for Agriculture, based in Teesside. My role is to facilitate knowledge exchange between farmers and other agricultural stakeholders such as researchers, policy makers, conservation organisations and industry.”
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Anna Wylie
“Coming from a beef and arable farm near Burntisland, Fife, I am deeply connected to the land and the realities of food production. I work to enhance the sustainability of my family’s farming operations and seek to contribute to the development of resilient, relocalised food systems. I studied law and hold master’s degrees in International Law of Global Security, Peace and Development, specialising in economics, sustainability and governance, and International Security.”
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Gloria Loriya
“I am an MSc Food Security student at The University of Edinburgh with a BSc in Human Nutrition and Dietetics. I am also the founder of Impact Generation Africa, an Indigenous-led organisation advancing school kitchen gardens and sustainable farming for women in Kenya’s arid regions. My work bridges grassroots realities to global policy, supporting a food system that is sustainable,nutritious and equitable hence capable of delivering environmental and social benefits for generations to come.”
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Fanny Jacqmarcq
“I am a graduate of Schumacher College and Eden Project in BSc Regenerative Food, Farming and Horticulture. I am a market garden grower and gardener in South Devon and passionate about transforming the food systems. I believe agroecology, small-scale food production, food and worker justice, and community involvement to be key to building a more resilient food system.”
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Jess Radnor
“I’m a Farm Advisor from rural Herefordshire, small farming background growing up with sheep and working on mixed farms in my late teens. I work closely with farmers and landowners’ cross border in England and Wales. I am passionate about future proofing and building resilience into farming systems.”
Our partners
This project is gratefully funded by Farming The Future.
The project is run jointly by SOS UK, National Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs, FLAME (youth branch of the Landworkers’ Alliance), Nature Friendly Farming Network and the Sustain: the alliance for better food and farming.
