Youth un- and under-employment are critical issues facing Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In spite of urbanisation and industrialisation, agriculture remains the principal employer and producer throughout SSA. Thus, a more modern and profitable agriculture sector (including aquaculture, fisheries, forestry and livestock) is required to generate much needed decent employment opportunities for the Continent’s...

 The main message from the consultation is that family farming plays a crucial role in the region’s agriculture, fisheries and food security, and therefore measures to support family farming should be an integral part of all agriculture development and food security strategies. The consultation highlighted the importance of policy measures...

On March 28, 2014 the Farmers’ Congress was held with the participation of Georgian farmers to voice out the problems and constraints in the field of agriculture. The Congress also addressed two global campaigns supporting the agricultural development: Oxfam campaign - “Food and Climate Changes 2014-2015” and UN/World Farmers Forum...

Agricultural educators – whether extension agents from public or private sector, university professors, school teachers or farmers themselves – need to become agents of change. They need to support farmers in the task of reconnecting to the agro-ecosystems that they manage, rather than becoming increasingly disconnected from them. This issue...

African governments, international agencies and NGOs are calling for policies which pay more attention to young people and agriculture.  This policy brief draws on research findings by Future Agricultures and asks: What are the expectations and aspirations of young rural men and women? What are the constraints and opportunities facing...

This Issue of Nature & Faune puts forward the case of “African Youth in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Development”. It carries twenty one articles contributed by different individuals, from: policy arena, conservation NGOs; the private sector; civil society groups; research and academia as well as youth groups. The United...

Family farming matters. In Africa, 60 to 70% of producers live in rural areas and they produce most of what Africa’s people consume. However, despite this contribution, family farming is often sidelined in academic discussions and in agricultural policies.

This paper sheds light on how to harvest the "youth dividend" in Sub-Saharan Africa by creating jobs in agriculture. The agriculture that attracts the youth will have to be profitable, competitive, and dynamic. These are the same characteristics needed for agriculture to deliver growth, to improve food security, and to...

The concept of family farming is the recipient of much high-level political capital right now...  The United Nations has declared 2014 the International Year of Family Farming, the primary aim of which is to promote, develop and strengthen all types of familyoriented agriculture - from horticulture and livestock to fisheries and forestry - as a socially...

Esta serie de estudios de caracterización sociodemográfica de las juventudes rurales tiene como objetivo aportar con información actualizada sobre este sector de la población tanto a nivel nacional como municipal o distrital, a modo de servir como insumo para el Programa, operaciones del FIDA, así como otros organismos involucrados en...

Esta serie de estudios de caracterización sociodemográfica de las juventudes rurales tiene como objetivo aportar con información actualizada sobre este sector de la población tanto a nivel nacional como municipal o distrital, a modo de servir como insumo para el Programa, operaciones del FIDA, así como otros organismos involucrados en...

Esta serie de estudios de caracterización sociodemográfica de las juventudes rurales tiene como objetivo aportar con información actualizada sobre este sector de la población tanto a nivel nacional como municipal o distrital, a modo de servir como insumo para el Programa, operaciones del FIDA, así como otros organismos involucrados en...

El propósito de esta serie de estudios es aportar información actualizada sobre las principales características demográficas y sociodemográficas de las juventudes rurales de la región, tanto a nivel nacional como municipal o distrital, a modo de servir como insumo para las operaciones del FIDA, así como otros organismos involucrados en...

El Programa Juventud Rural Emprendedora de PROCASUR se propone contribuir a la reducción de la pobreza de la juventud rural de América Latina, apoyando la implementación de las operaciones que financia el FIDA, destinadas a mejorar el acceso de los jóvenes rurales a iniciativas de desarrollo, relevantes para sus estrategias...

A journey in "Le Conche", farm of the young Calabrian farmer Vincenzo Sposato: his passion for the job, the relationship with the family, friendship and his future plans. The story focuses on the innovations brought by Vincenzo who having inherited a traditional olive trees farm,  in a few years turned...

Cascina Barosi is a farm completely run by women. Cascina Barosi is a journey backwards, from big cities to the countryside. Benedetta, from Milan, managed a farm near Cremona. The film recounts his relationship with technology, enabling her to remotely control to the work on the farm, succeeding so to...

The film tells the special relationship of Matteo Bolognesi with agriculture: original, organic and biodynamic, but without giving up technology. With small investments from the Rural Development Programme of his region, has created a niche market in which he is producing essential oils, lavender, rosemary, spices for the well-being and...

El CECTEC es una organización civil, sin fines de lucro, que orienta su acción formativa a productores campesinos, a sus familias y comunidades. Las líneas de trabajo del CECTEC intentan responder a problemas concretos que afectan a la unidad familiar campesina y, en particular, a la juventud.

The laxity of young people taking up farming may be due to, but not limited, to lack of farming incentives, inadequate access to productive assets such as land and capital, inadequate infrastructure, limited well-functioning markets, high population pressure on land and inadequate access to appropriate technologies by farmers. In this...

Este número de la Revista de Agroecología LEISA, contiene los siguientes artículos: Juventud rural: una apuesta cafetera por la innovación y la competitividad Futuros agricultores: recuperando la agricultura para la juventud del Pacífico Grupos de ayuda mutua juvenil en la región fresera del subtrópico mexicano: una estrategia para la subsistencia de las familias...