This video features the testimonies of policy makers and young agri-entrepreneurs from Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal who participated in the Learning Programme Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems. In this video participants highlight challenges and opportunites to engage youth in responsible agricultural investment. The interviews were recorded during the face-to-face workshop held in Nouakchott from 27 to 31 January 2020.

FAO and its partners work in Tunisia to strengthen the capacity of young agro-entrepreneurs to invest in their businesses in order to reduce youth unemployment and revitalize rural areas. More information: http://www.fao.org/in-action/responsible-agricultural-investments/news/detail/en/c/1238982/

Cheick Oumar Ba, Director of the Agricultural and Rural Prospective Initiative (IPAR in its French acronym) explains the importance of creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems, and introduces the joint work done with FAO in this regard.

This video features the testimonies of the participants in the learning programme "Creating an enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems", whose first face-to-face workshop took place in March 2019 in Dakar. The programme aims at building the capacities of key political leaders to foster more and better investments in agriculture, as per the Principles for Responsible Investment in Agriculture and Food Systems (CFS RAI).