Agricultural systems can be made more efficient, productive and profitable for young people to secure their livelihoods and ensure food security as a strategy to adapt to climate change by embracing climate smart agriculture. Financing climate smart agriculture!
3. Introduction
The Climate Smart Agriculture is planned
with the aim of establishing and promoting
at least 10,000 youth-led farms and
agribusinesses across Africa by 2020; as well
as promoting a youth-led agribusiness
society, reducing poverty and increasing
active youth participation in sustainable
agriculture by 2020. This is in line with the
new SDG goals
4. BACKGROUND
Agriculture accounts for a huge percentage of
Nigeria’s GDP and employs 70% of the population.
With a high population growth rate,
unemployment and youth restiveness and need to
ensure food security, land use change associated
with promotion of agricultural activities in
Nigeria is high. This is especially so regarding
youth participation in Agric. To transform to a
green economy, there is need to promote the
adoption of sustainable technologies through
market incentives that increase the interest and
participation of young people in sustainable Agric
management and livelihood practices.
5. TARGET BENEFICIARY
Graduates and Undergraduates between the ages of 15-35
years in the FCT and neighbouring States of Nigeria
METHODOLOGY
Research and Documentation (Needs Assessment and
Baseline Surveys, Training Manuals and Media Toolkits)
Advocacy and Networking
Capacity Building
Media (Print, traditional, electronic and social)
YFarm online short courses
YFarm community outreach
Incubation Centre
Multi-level Marketing
6. CSA - STRATEGIC ACTIVITY
Value Chain and Value Addition Academy for Cassava
and Pineapple.
Production, Processing, Packaging and export of
Cassava and Pineapple
Agribusiness Training.
Internships and Exchange programmes
E-Commerce platforms (mobile app, e-shop and
online directory)
Consultancy services
7. Background….
Agricultural systems can be made more
efficient, productive and profitable for young
people to secure their livelihoods and ensure
food security as a strategy to adapt to climate
change by embracing climate smart agriculture.
8. Climate smart agriculture Project is indeed a
unique project which aims to draw young
people out of Poverty, into Sustainable
Agriculture. It adopts a two-pronged
approach of promoting youth-led
farms/agribusinesses and highlighting the
benefits of farming for sustainable
livelihoods. This work changes the poor
image of young persons involved in
agriculture as poor and illiterate, and
promote them as nagropreneurs and
agribusiness experts.
9. Nigeria is one of the 53 African governments who agreed
to make agriculture a top priority in national development
by increasing public investments in agriculture to at least
10 percent. This agreement was signed during the July
2003 African Union Summit in Maputo, Mozambique to
drive one of the most promising African-led initiatives
called the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development
Program (CAADP).
It is worthy of note that the Federal Government has come
up with the Agricultural Transformation Agenda (ATA)
policy framework to transform the agriculture sector and
make it more viable and attractive to the public and
investors. Secondly, there are several presidential Initiatives
like the Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria
(YouWiN) and Youth Employment in Agriculture
Programme (YEAP) specifically created to inspire
entrepreneurship in young people.
10. three key challenges in
successfully implementing the
implement:
1. Finance
2. Land for the Incubation
Centre and
3. Innovative financing.
11. The challenges of innovative
financing
The quest for innovative and additional sources of
financing for development has a long lineage. Mobilising
IFD was recognised as a key challenge and objective at
the UN International Conference on Financing for
Development in Monterrey in 2002 (UN 2002). Political-
level discussion has since gathered pace in international
and regional forums including the Commonwealth
Finance Ministers Meeting in 2011 (Commonwealth
Secretariat 2011a), the G8 in 2009 and the G20 in 2011.
Political commitments have been supported by a
growing body of technical work by
international, regional and national organisations,
private sector associations and foundations, and civil
society organisations (CSOs)
12. A large part of Nigerian citizens live in poverty.
This is out of place considering the huge potential
Nigeria has in terms of youthful population and
agricultural resources available.
Rice plantation
13. This project aim to inspire a movement of
young people to take ownership of
initiatives by the Federal Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development as well
as advocate for more investments in
agriculture. The plan will also provide an
avenue to increase awareness among policy
makers and national leaders on the
contribution of agricultural investment in
achieving the national growth we all desire
to see.
14. The Sustainable Development Goals are the most
ambitious seen in 2015 and achieving them will require
collective action and Partnership. If we must succeed
and make impact in financing climate smart agriculture,
we must adopt some basic principles of adaptation,
Financing and finance tracking principles, and develop
joint ideologies for measuring the amount of public and
private finance we leverage, drawing on Nigeria’s
collective experience.
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