Baobab : a magazine on drylands development and sustainable agriculture, issue 61, March 2011
2011
This issue focuses on encouragement of youth into farming activities, where new technologies, products, markets and business possibilities emerge regularly in the agricultural sector. Agricultural productivity needs to increase and it is especially critical for young people to keep up with innovative trends through incentives and policy reform. In particular, agriculture must be upgraded to move from subsistence to commercial farming. “Today, youth need our support. Tomorrow, we will need their contribution, their creativity, their commitment and their leadership.” In Africa, 70 percent of the population is under the age of 25, and in 50 years, the world’s population could stand at over 9 billion.
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