Drivers of Youth Engagement in Agriculture: Insights from Guatemala, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Uganda
Engaging youth populations in developing country agriculture is an important strategy toward effective, efficient and sustainable food system transformation.
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Engaging burgeoning youth populations in developing country agriculture is seen as an important strategy toward effective, efficient and sustainable food system transformation. Yet the policy, institutional, technological and capability barriers and ways to overcome them for successful participation of youth in agriculture are not fully understood.
This report utilizes a conceptual framework that identifies key pathways to prosperity for youth and classifies contextual and driving factors that contribute to the success of youth engagement in agriculture. The framework comprises four broad categories of strategic interventions: policy and socioeconomic environment, institutional, technological/business infrastructure and individual skills and capacities. In the context of this framework, insights are then presented from cases of youth participation in agriculture in five countries: Guatemala, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda.
Report authored by: Suresh Chandra Babu, Steven Franzel, Kristin E. Davis and Nandita Srivastava
