Blurring Lines: Youth Development, Colonization and Climate Change

This presentation will explore how climate change has affected Youth Agriculture Cooperatives (YAC) in Palestine; and the measures young people are taking towards adaptation and transformation. To do so, it is important to understand young people's lived experience and understanding of their context. Challenges and opportunities facing YAC can be understood only through the analysis of the intersectionality between policies of colonisation, land grabs, the restrictions in access to natural resources and the social structures that exclude young people in the State of Palestine. This paper seeks to situate how young people respond to climate change within their context, and how it affects their pursuit of a better life. The chapter will look at the lived experience of young people as they interact with their environment- within a setting of marginalisation, as youth and as farmers.