Are Africa's rural youth abandoning agriculture?

2021 ◽  
pp. 43-57
Author(s):  
Justin Flynn ◽  
James Sumberg
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Social Difference

Abstract This chapter presents evidence concerning young people's engagement with the rural economy in Africa, and uses this evidence to ask whether young people are indeed leaving agriculture en masse, and if so, what they are doing instead. The focus is on broad patterns of engagement, and how these are affected by gender, age and other markers of social difference. The discussion is framed by established debates around the emergence and importance of the rural non-farm economy (RNFE), linkages between farm and non-farm activities, and the changing nature of rural livelihoods - all set against a backdrop of structural transformation.

scholarly journals Rural Diversification Strategies in Promoting Structural Transformation in Zimbabwe

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-138
Author(s):  
Mathew Svodziwa
Keyword(s):  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Rural Households ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Income Sources ◽  
Diversification Strategies ◽  
The Government

Abstract Rural diversification strategies in Zimbabwe are wide in nature but the environment plays an important role in ensuring that sustainability and structural transformation are achieved. A good understanding of the diversity of rural livelihoods choices and income sources among rural households would therefore inform policy makers on appropriate policy interventions. This paper delves to establish the role of rural diversification strategies in promoting structural transformation in Zimbabwe using Insiza district as a case study. A mixed methods research design was used. Both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods were applied. The study utilized semi-structured interviews with key informants who were purposively sampled to take part in the study. A total of 100 questionnaires were distributed and 86 were returned thus giving the researcher a response rate of 86%. The study’s findings noted that rural diversification is an important component of the rural economy and it plays an important component in order to achieve structural transformation using Insiza district in Zimbabwe as a case study. The study also noted that though climate was negatively impacting on the Insiza district residents, households that diversified their income sources had enhanced income compared with farming households which do not diversify their income sources being vulnerable. The study recommends that the government should intervene by financing and educating the rural folk. Micro-policy should be targeted on rural households incomes that facilitate the provision of widening income options through small scale group schemes.

scholarly journals The Future of Rurality: Place Attachment among Young Inhabitants of Two Rural Communities of Mediterranean Central Chile

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 546
Author(s):  
Paulina Rodríguez-Díaz ◽  
Rocío Almuna ◽  
Carla Marchant ◽  
Sally Heinz ◽  
Roxana Lebuy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Young People ◽  
Rural Community ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Place Attachment ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Central Chile ◽  
Agricultural Communities ◽  
Connectedness To Nature

Rural livelihoods are under threat, not only from climate change and soil erosion but also because young people in rural areas are increasingly moving to urbanized areas, seeking employment and education opportunities. In the Valparaiso region of Chile, megadrought, soil degradation, and industrialization are driving young people to leave agricultural and livestock activities. In this study, our main objective was to identify the factors influencing young people living in two rural agricultural communities (Valle Hermoso and La Vega). We conducted 90 online surveys of young people aged 13–24 to evaluate their interest in living in the countryside (ILC). We assessed the effect of community satisfaction, connectedness to nature, and social valuation of rural livelihoods on the ILC. The results show that young people were more likely to stay living in the countryside when they felt satisfied and safe in their community, felt a connection with nature, and were surrounded by people who enjoyed the countryside. These results highlight the relevance of promoting place attachment and the feeling of belonging within the rural community. Chilean rural management and local policies need to focus on rural youth and highlight the opportunities that the countryside provides for them.

scholarly journals Youth, Land and Rural Livelihoods in Africa

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jordan Chamberlin ◽  
James Sumberg
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Rural Livelihoods ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Youth Engagement ◽  
Limited Access ◽  
Economic Transformations ◽  
Sub Saharan

Rural economic transformations in Africa are generating new opportunities to engage with agricultural value chains. However, many young people are said to be locked out of such opportunities because of limited access to farmland, which pushes them out of agriculture and rural areas, and/or hinders their autonomy. This framing of the ‘land problem’ imperfectly reflects rural young people’s livelihoods in much of sub-Saharan Africa, and therefore does not provide a solid basis for policy. Policy-relevant discussions must consider the diversity of rural contexts, broader land dynamics and more nuanced depictions of youth engagement with the rural economy.

Condom Use and HIV/AIDS Among Young People in Edo State, Nigeria

2020 ◽  
pp. 0044118X2098138
Author(s):  
Eric Y. Tenkorang
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Condom Use ◽  
Random Effects ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Sexually Active ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Junior Secondary Schools ◽  
Junior Secondary ◽  
Edo State ◽  
Gender Specific

This study used the Information Motivation Behavioral (IMB) skills model to examine condom use among rural youth in Edo State, Nigeria. Data were collected from 4,801 youth aged 11 to 17 years attending Junior Secondary Schools. Analysis focused on 1,749 (Male = 1,134, Female = 615) sexually active youth. Random-effects ordinal logit models were used to examine the effects of the various components of the IMB framework on frequency of condom use. Gender-specific models were estimated. Results provided qualified support for the IMB. Specifically, youth who communicated with teachers and peers about condoms and HIV had higher odds of saying they used condoms always than sometimes or never. Compared to males who did not think they could get HIV, those who thought they probably could get infected were less likely to use condoms frequently. Similarly, compared to those who didn’t, females who knew others infected with HIV were less likely to use condoms frequently.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurial Intention among Rural Youth in Moroccan Agricultural Cooperatives: The Future of Rural Entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 9247
Author(s):  
El Bouichou ◽  
Tahirou Abdoulaye ◽  
Khalil Allali ◽  
Abdelghani Bouayad ◽  
Aziz Fadlaoui
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Young People ◽  
Binary Logistic Regression ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intention ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Entrepreneurial Intentions ◽  
Agricultural Cooperatives ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Random Sample Size ◽  
Rural Entrepreneurship

Rural entrepreneurship in the developing world has long been hailed as a powerful tool for promoting the socioeconomic integration of young people and the key to avoiding rural depopulation as well as ensuring these areas remain attractive places for rural youth. However, there have been no efforts to investigate the role of collective entrepreneurship in the creation and management of new businesses in Morocco. Furthermore, we build on the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to investigate and explain entrepreneurial intention among the rural youth members of agricultural cooperatives, and identify the vulnerabilities and factors that influence the choice or decision-making between permanent membership at the cooperative and an entrepreneurial career. In this case, we apply the cognitive approach to survey rural youth in the Drâa-Tafilalet region of Morocco in 2020. The binary logistic regression analysis technique has been used and applied to build the best model to explain why some rural youth members of the cooperative, but not others, choose to become entrepreneurs. We model how agricultural cooperatives may favor or inhibit the translation of entrepreneurial intention into new venture creation. A random sample size of 130 young people has been selected, from which 54 are intending to start a business and 76 have a negative intention of self-employment. The results of the analysis showed that socio-demographic variables, individual perceptions, previous experience, and the activities of the cooperative were statistically significant and reliable in building the binary logistic regression model. Findings also suggest that the risks of agribusiness and financing constraints have a negative influence on entrepreneurial intentions of the youth and women in agricultural cooperatives.

Young people and the rural economy: syntheses and implications.

2021 ◽  
pp. 173-180
Author(s):  
James Sumberg ◽  
Carolina Szyp ◽  
Thomas Yeboah ◽  
Marjoke Oosterom ◽  
Barbara Crossouard ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Practical Implications

Abstract The research presented in this book uses qualitative and quantitative analysis to address the dominant narratives and 'conventional wisdom' about youth and the rural economy in sub-Saharan Africa. This final chapter synthesizes the empirical findings described in the previous chapters and sets out their discursive and practical implications for policy relating to youth, agricultural and rural development.

scholarly journals The Social Deviance of the Vietnamese Young toward Values and Lifestyles, Gender, Communication, and Family Customs

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 15-20
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Civil Servants ◽  
Social Deviance ◽  
Quantitative Survey ◽  
Gender Communication ◽  
Study Report ◽  
The Social

This study report is an analysis result of a quantitative survey on attitudes of Vietnamese youth both male (M) and female (F) who are civil servants, workers, young urbanites, rural youth, Pupil, Student, the young violated the laws about living styles, gender, communication, and family. The findings show that young people have opposite tendencies. Some of them advocate things have been traditionally named, while others are looking for and living in new ways which are being labelled as a kind of social deviance.

scholarly journals PERBEDAAN SOSIALISASI NILAI PERTANIAN OLEH AGEN SOSIALISASI PRIMER KEPADA PEMUDA DAN PEMUDI DI PEDESAAN (KASUS DESA CIASMARA, PAMIJAHAN, BOGOR)

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 9
Author(s):  
Yogaprasta Adi Nugraha ◽  
Muslim Muslim
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Rural Youth ◽  
Comparative Approach ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Agriculture Sector

<p align="justify"><em>The phenomenon related to the low participation of young people to work in the agricultural sector, it is necessary to be studied more new perspectives. Moreover, the perspective of how agriculture itself is constructed by their social system, in this case, how parents and peers construct the notion of agriculture.</em><em> </em><em>The objectives of this study are 1) to identify the differences between the attitudes of male and female rural youth towards work in the agricultural sector, 2) to analyze differences in the patterns of socialization of parents and peers to male and female rural-youth about work in the agricultural sector, and 3) analyze the differences between the relationship patterns of socialization of parents and peers with the attitude of male and female rural youth towards agricultural work.</em><em> </em><em>This research was conducted in Ciasmara Village, Pamijahan Sub-district, Bogor District from July 2019 to February 2020 using quantitative research methods with a descriptive-comparative approach. A total of 69 young women and 60 young people were selected as research samples. This study found that there were differences in attitudes between male and female rural youth related to work in the rice agriculture sector. Parents were the actors who most highly socialize the value of agriculture to young men and women in the form of involving the activities of growing rice, cultivating land, and harvesting. Meanwhile, both parents and peers have positively correlated with the attitudes of young men and women about work in the agricultural sector.</em><em></em></p>

scholarly journals Gender, Rural Youth and Structural Transformation: Evidence to Inform Innovative Youth Programming

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl R. Doss ◽  
Jessica Heckert ◽  
Emily Myers ◽  
Audrey Pereira ◽  
Agnes Quisumbing
Keyword(s):  
Structural Transformation ◽  
Rural Youth
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