What is it about?
Engagement of youth in agriculture in low- and middle-income countries may offer opportunities to curb underemployment, urban migration, disillusionment of youth and social unrest, as well as to lift individuals and communities from poverty and hunger. Lack of education or skills training has been cited as a challenge to engage youth in the sector. Here we systematically interrogate the literature for the evaluation of skills training programmes for youth in low- and middle-income countries.
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Why is it important?
The study find that skills training programmes report positive effects on our chosen outcomes, like previous systematic reviews we find the topic to chronically lack evaluation.
Perspectives
Given the interest that donors and policymakers have in youth engagement in agriculture, our systematic review uncovers a gap in the knowledge of their effectiveness.
Dr Cocou Jaures Amegnaglo
Universite d'Abomey-Calavi
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This page is a summary of: A systematic review of employment outcomes from youth skills training programmes in agriculture in low- and middle-income countries, Nature Food, October 2020, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1038/s43016-020-00172-x.
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