Download - What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?
![Page 1: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in
Zimbabwe?
![Page 2: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
DEMOGRAPHIC AND AGRICULTURAL INFO
• Zimbabwe Agric Sector Overview– Sector provides income for approx.
70% of pop.– Provides 60% of the raw materials for
industrial sector– 40% total export earning, contributing
15-19% of GDP– 57% of the population is between 18-35
(2010 estimate)
![Page 3: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
CONTEXTUALISING OPPORTUNITIES: THE HOLISTIC VIEW OF AGRICULTURE
• Negative perception of agriculture help by most youth across the studies
• Definitional focus on agriculture as limited to primary production
• To understand the value-chain and where they can participate, youth must ‘re-brand’ and modernise their definition of agriculture.
![Page 4: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
CONTEXTUALISING OPPORTUNITIES: THE HOLISTIC VIEW OF AGRICULTURE
• Identifying the symbiotic synergies between agriculture and other sectors helps enable youth to engage and participate in the value-chain more proactively.
• Holistic view of agriculture leads to a better appreciation of available opportunities, because regardless of sector we can see the links to agricultural value-chain.
![Page 5: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
CHALLENGES FACED BY YOUTH IN ZIMBABWE
• However, Zimbabwe had a unique challenge lack of contextualised policies for different agricultural zones.
1. Different agricultural zones specialise in different agricultural methods and products, BUT are governed by a ‘one-size-fits-all’ policy approach.
2. Dualised agricultural sector: subsistence vs. Commercial
• Young people are creating alternative spaces of economic participation (small scale mining/cross-border trading/hunting and poaching/and other ‘quick-return, high-risk’ activities in the areas without adequate agricultural support.
![Page 6: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
• Twitter comment- “given the vagaries of climate change, agroecology, prices, markets and policy, spreading risk, smoothing income streams etc, for young people having a diverse portfolio of livelihood options is vital, especially when agriculture is so risky and uncertain.”
• So how to make agriculture less ‘uncertain’ for youths?
![Page 7: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
OPPORTUNITIES FOR VALUE-CHAIN ENGAGEMENT BY YOUTH
• The holistic approach to agriculture creates a wide range of opportunities in different fields:
Engineering (support and extension to primary producers etc)
Pharmaceuticals (veterinary support)agro-chemicals (fertilisers, pesticides etc)processing and marketing (packaging,
selling etc) infrastructure and irrigation dev. (transport
and logistics etc)
![Page 8: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
OPPORTUNITIES FOR VALUE-CHAIN ENGAGEMENT BY YOUTH
‘Green’ technologies (bio-diesels, alternative energy etc)
ICTs (social media, GIS, modern training techniques/support etc)
banking and finance (cooperatives, micro-lending, MPESA etc)
R & D (new innovations in all fields above etc)
• By promoting greater sectoral linkages, value-chain development enhances job creation and agricultural modernisation in Zim/ Africa
![Page 9: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
• Youth Champions are an example of a holistic approach to the agricultural value-chain
AGRICULTURE
ICTs
Policy and strategy
Agri-
Business
Inst. &
Mech.
![Page 10: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
RECOMMENDATIONS
• Agricultural education must be modernised and prioritised• Contextualised policy prescriptions, rooted in evidence
based research of the needs and requirements of young ‘agripreneurs’ are essential
• Finding creative ways to make access to capital easier (with adequate training and support, youth not as financially risky)
• Replication and reward of success stories• Modern ICT methods of business and information
dissemination must be tapped into• Climate change awareness and adaptive farming
techniques to ensure sustainability
![Page 11: What are the opportunities for youth to engage in the agricultural value chain in Zimbabwe?](https://reader036.vdocument.in/reader036/viewer/2022071806/56649d055503460f949d93f1/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
Youth, our time is now. Thank you. Asante.Siyabonga.