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African Rural Youth Engagement in Agribusiness: Achievements, Limitations, and Lessons

Sustainability, 2019-01, Vol.11 (1), p.185 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License. ;ISSN: 2071-1050 ;EISSN: 2071-1050 ;DOI: 10.3390/su11010185

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  • Title:
    African Rural Youth Engagement in Agribusiness: Achievements, Limitations, and Lessons
  • Author: Yami, Mastewal ; Feleke, Shiferaw ; Abdoulaye, Tahirou ; Alene, Arega ; Bamba, Zoumana ; Manyong, Victor
  • Subjects: Agribusiness ; Agriculture ; Careers ; Collective action ; Entrepreneurship ; Families & family life ; Farms ; Farmworkers ; Literature reviews ; Private sector ; Rural areas ; Rural communities ; Startups ; Sustainability ; Young adults ; Youth employment ; Youth participation
  • Is Part Of: Sustainability, 2019-01, Vol.11 (1), p.185
  • Description: Engaging rural youth in agribusiness has become an important strategy to create employment opportunities in Africa. To this end, governments and development partners have implemented various interventions that facilitate youth engagement in agribusiness for several years. However, there is a dearth of evidence on what worked and what did not work well, making it difficult to inform evidence-based policy making. In an effort to fill this knowledge gap, a comprehensive literature review of the outcomes of interventions related to youth engagement in agribusiness was conducted using a deductive coding approach. Results showed that the interventions implemented by governments and development partners across Africa have succeeded in producing favorable outcomes despite some limitations. Interventions that integrate capacity development, financial support for startups, and continuous mentorship on the technical and financial aspects of youth-run agribusiness projects proved successful in enhancing youth engagement in agribusiness. This suggests that the design and implementation of future interventions should be based on an integrated approach that considers diversity of youths’ aspirations and shared capabilities, interests, expectations, as well as challenges associated with access to resources and participation in collective action. The design of future interventions should also be built on strong partnerships among rural communities, academia, research, and private sector for increased impact on livelihood improvements.
  • Publisher: Basel: MDPI AG
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2071-1050
    EISSN: 2071-1050
    DOI: 10.3390/su11010185
  • Source: GFMER Free Medical Journals
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