Youth Food Movement: Helping Young Australians Make Better Food Choices

Youth Food Movement (YFM) is a volunteer-based, non-profit organization aiming to help young Australians deepen their relationship with food, both with their mind and their stomach. YFM believes all Australian youths are capable of making food choices that demand and support a healthy and sustainable food system.

Looking to increase the food literacy levels of Australian young adults, YFM starts conversations and challenges ideas about the definition of good food. The non-profit also integrates new concepts about the food system into daily life, giving the younger generation the chance to constantly experience and engage with the food system in an honest manner.

Youth Food Movement aspires to be a nationwide campaign that brings young people together over food and makes them aware of their power as conscious consumers. YFM also hopes to be a collective voice for young Australians that can be heard in political and other conversations about food.

Launched in 2011, YFM was started by a group of young people who came together in Sydney to share a delicious dinner of locally sourced, seasonal produce.