Youth and agriculture: Key challenges and concrete solutions

This publication shows how tailor-made educational programmes (such as the Junior Farmer Field and Life Schools approach) can provide rural youth with the skills and insights needed to engage in farming and adopt environmentally friendly production methods.

With some additional effort, through farmer organizations and improved infrastructure, young farmers can connect to markets to sell their often higher value food.

Facilitating youth’s access to credit helps them become entrepreneurs, improving their self-esteem and the feeling that they can make a living in rural areas.