Глобальный форум по продовольственной безопасности и питанию (Форум FSN)

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    • The enabling environment needed in order to ensure sustainability of youth in agriculture capacity development initiatives especially in Africa are as follows:

      1. 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.
      2. 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.
      3. 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.
      4. 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.
      5. 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.
      6. 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.

    • I am delighted for having opporttunity to discuss on this platform in order to discuss issues related to agriculture and food production.

      My contribution is about this question:

      What are the biggest challenges youth in Africa face after going through youth-specific capacity development initiatives in agriculture?

      The biggest challenges youth in Africa especially in Kano Nigeria are facing after going through capacity development especially on animal production are as follows:

      1. Lack of interest in agriculture by the youth especially urban dwellers:

      Most of the youth that are enrolled into this entrepreneurship lack interest in animal rearing and production. Threrefore, after the training they cannot put it into practice.

      2. Lack practical skills from the youth: Most of capacities for youth empowerment take few weeks, therefore, the participants are graduated without basic skills, therefore when they were empowered with takeup grants they will not engange on the bussiness rather than to sell out the inputs.

      3. Lack of good markets for the commodities: Market is the key factor to animal production. After capacities majority of the youth cannot continue with their production due to improper marketing channels, sometimes they prepare to sell the produce on lost or credit.