The enabling environment needed in order to ensure sustainability of youth in agriculture capacity development initiatives especially in Africa are as follows:
- Provision of capital for implementing innovations: Youth need enough capital in order to implement the agribusiness. Therefore, African governments, NGOs and international organizations, including FAO, should provide substantial capital either in form of credit or grants to youth in order to ensure sustainability of youth in agriculture.
- Access to land for agribusiness: Youth in Africa need land for proper implementation of their business. Example youth that are train for broiler production they need permanent and suitable land where they can settle and continue their production.
- Provision for infrastructure: Infrastructure necessary to transport agricultural produce for example, livestock, livestock products, vegetables etc from remote rural communities, where production is concentrated, to urban markets where is lacking. Roads are necessary for easier conveyance of farm produce to market for sustainability. Also storage facilities should be provided especially for perishable products such as milk, vegetables and so on. Furthermore processing centers should be provided in many villages so that agricultural produce can be processed.
- Provision for cooperative society: Provision for cooperative society in many communities and for different types of agribusiness is necessary for making agricultural production easier for accessing loan, grants, markets and so on in order to ensure sustainability of youth in agriculture.
- Provision of marketing channels and market information: Youth in agriculture should have access to market information. The market information would have been an important driving force for increased production and sustainability.
- Power supply provision is very important for processing and preservation of farm produce especially in Nigerian villages and cities in order to ensure sustainability of youth in agriculture.
Dr. Garba Saleh