Youth Employment in Fragile Countries: Youth Employment Opportunities in African Agrifood Systems

February 1, 2017 - Andrea Allen, Julie Howard, M. Kondo, Amy Jamison, Thomas Jayne<jayne@msu.edu>, J. Snyder, David Tschirley<tschirle@msu.edu> and Kwame Felix Yeboah

Andrea Allen, Julie Howard, M. Kondo, Amy Jamison, Thomas Jayne, J. Snyder, David Tschirley and Kwame Felix Yeboah. 2017. Youth Employment Opportunities in African Agrifood Systems, in Youth Employment in Fragile Countries. ECDPM Volume 6, Issue 1, February/March 2017

ABSTRACT
Rapidly transforming agrifood systems has the potential to drive the expansion of youth employment and broad-based economic development in sub-Saharan Africa. Focusing on Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania, this article highlights the most promising opportunities and needed policy and programme changes

 

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  • agrifood system transformation,
  • food security group,
  • fsg peer reviewed publications,
  • nigeria,
  • rwanda,
  • tanzania,
  • youth employment / entrepreneurship

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