Anika Molesworth and Joshua Gilbert crowd-funded their trip to learn more about advancements in the agricultural industry.
They hope the talks will result in action to prevent further heartache for farmers as a result of changing climate conditions.
The effects of drought in the New South Wales town of Broken Hill have been felt for more than a decade.
Plagued by arid conditions, Anika Molesworth's family felt it more than most.
"My family purchased the property in 2000, at the start of the decade-long drought, which is not the best time to be buying a sheep station."
The Young Australian Farmer of the Year says she learnt a lot over those years and knows more changes are coming.
"There wasn't the water, there wasn't the vegetation, and if you had livestock they were going to be suffering. So after a few favourable seasons, we were able to put sheep on the property, and then gradually build up numbers. But you really saw just how the environment is changing and then looking at the projections, that it's going to became even hotter and drier for that region, it is concerning for people who live and work with the environment, who work off the land."
They eventually restocked the 10,000-acre farm with Dorper sheep, an African breed known for its resilience in dry conditions.
"With agriculture it is so variable, every industry, every geographic region is so diverse, and the impacts of climate change are so varied, so in northern Australia they were expected to get more rain, more intense rainfall, where in southern Australia there's a drying trend."
Anika Molesworth believes climate change can be mitigated.
Her family has already installed solar panels which have reduced electricity bills by 70 per cent.
They run windmills to pump water to distant troughs.
She's confident Paris has the potential to change the trajectory of climate change if global leaders put in place the right emissions reductions strategies.
She wants greater climate action to ensure food security in Australia and across the globe.
"Farmers have such a strong affinity to the land, to the soil the water, the climate, the biodiversity. We really live and work with the environment, so they are on the front line of climate change. So farmers around the world are experiencing changes in the way that they are producing food and fibre. Agricuture is such a dynamic and constantly evolving industry that I guess the rate of change is becoming more quick now, and farmers really have to have the skills, the knowledge and those support networks in place to continue to produce food."
Anika Molesworth says the vast Australian landscape is ideal for embracing renewable technologies.
"Solar and wind energy in particular, in addition to other renewable sources like wave energy, geothermal. I really want to see renewable energy adopted on a greater scale in Australia. And I think farmers need to have the good governance, the education, the incentives, to transition away from fossil fuels and really embrace these renewables. And they are in such a great position to champion these energies too."
Anika Molesworth and fellow young farmer Joshua Gilbert crowd-funded their trip to Paris to learn more about advancements in the agricultural industry.
For Joshua Gilbert, the effects of climate change go beyond the impact on his family's 50 head of Braford cattle.
The 24 year old is of Indigenous heritage, and the Nabiac property in the New South Wales far east sits on his ancestors' land.
"My elders, 40,000 years ago - and we still farm the same farmland today - they talk about the changes that they've seen and when they start talking about climate change it's hard not to listen."
Fortunately, their herd of drought-hardy Braford cattle have survived well through drying conditions.
But they had to take action to prevent further damage caused by changing conditions.
"We're certainly seeing a lot more erosion on the beach, we know that there's greater impacts on food availability there for our people, traditional food availability. We know that there's some pretty big impacts there and something we need to continue working on."
The pair hope to learn from other farmers attending the climate talks in Paris.
Anika Molesworth says the summit's "Farmers' Day" was a real eye-opener, showing them what's going on in other parts of the world, such as Kenya.
Brian Ochami Otiende runs a small-scale maize farm in Kenya.
Also a climate change coordinator for the East African Community, he knows he's not alone in suffering the effects of climate change.
Agriculture is one of Kenya's biggest industries, but inconsistent wet seasons are posing a major risk to the economy.
"Most of our agricultural practices are rain-fed. And one of the impacts that farmers are currently experiencing, there's a delay in the onset of rainfalls, in the seasons when farmers have already prepared the land for cultivating, and they've even put the seeds in the soil, and then the rain is delayed, there's an impact in the sense that germination doesn't occur, and most of these seeds end up actually going to waste."
Not enough rain is just as bad as too much.
Brian Otiende says they can get very heavy rainfalls, which lead to flooding, severe crop damage and yield shortages.
And that has affected harvests, with flow-on consequences.
"There's especially the impact of toxins. Because when the crop has been harvested and actually the rain has come before the crop has been taken from the field - then the moisture is reabsorbed back into the crops and then there's also a problem when it comes to necessary conditions to dry the crop."
The high humidity contaminates the crops with toxins and bacteria making it dangerous to consume.
A lack of education means many rural communities cannot detect the dangers.
Brian Otiende says the Kenyan government is trying to find sustainable ways to maintain agricultural practices, but it's a work in progress.
He hopes adaptive policies are not far away.
SBS reporter Sarah Abo is in Paris, sponsored by the UN's weather agency, the World Meteorological Organisation.
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