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A new report from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) shows that by working with women, men, young people and indigenous peoples as change agents we are best placed to beat back the impact of climate change on rural communities in West and Central Africa (WCA).

On 22-23 October 2018 IFAD and Save the Children Italy, with the support of the Government of Canada organized the International Conference “Leaving no one behind: making the case for adolescent girls”. 

Le présent rapport se fonde sur des données concrètes; on y tente de fournir le type d’analyse qui peut éclairer les politiques, les programmes et les investissements visant à promouvoir une transformation rurale qui intègre les jeunes. Le FIDA y examine qui sont les jeunes ruraux, où ils vivent et quelles sont les multiples contraintes auxquelles ils se heurtent dans leur cheminement de la dépendance à l’autonomie.

Cette étude examine les dynamiques de l'emploi dans l'agriculture en Tanzanie et au Malawi. 

En 2030, les jeunes représenteront environ 15% de la population mondiale, et les jeunes ruraux, environ 6%. Certaines régions du monde pourraient même se trouver confrontées à une explosion démographique de la jeunesse, qui constituerait alors une proportion sensiblement plus élevée de la population.

This publication seeks to provide development practitioners, governmental and non-governmental organizations and agencies with insights into the case studies on overcoming the challenges that young people face in diverse contexts. 

The Latin America and the Caribbean region is a different place than it was 25 years ago. Today, every nation except Haiti is categorized as middle income. The region has reduced poverty by half, and the prevalence of hunger has declined by almost two thirds. More than half the adult population has attended secondary school.

Rural areas are changing too. They are no longer narrowly defined by their food production role, and key issues encompass many non-agricultural topics – including non-farm employment opportunities, especially for young people and women; migration and remittances; social protection; and the role of secondary cities. 

Although there have been improvements in YFS access, youth are still lagging significantly behind adults in being able to access financial tools. Across high- and low-income countries, young people are less likely than adults to have a formal account. There are even starker differences related to a country’s income level, with 21 per cent of youth in low-income economies having a formal account compared with 61 per cent in upper-middle-income economies (Demirguc-Kunt et al., 2013). 

Even with this data, determining the exact extent of youth access to financial services can be complicated because there is a lack of consistent data and definitions on youth (see Box 3). The lack of data is more limited for rural areas.
While there is some analysis of the urban-rural gap in access to financial services, with those living in cities significantly more likely to have an account than rural residents (Klapper, 2012), there are currently no comprehensive studies with disaggregated data for rural youth.