The #YADI Conference

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GROUP 1
Assigned Cause:
Lack of established agribusiness development
initiatives to advance training in vocational
agriculture in order to demonstrate and promote
opportunity for youth.

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Rephrased Cause:
Lack of functional agribusiness development
initiates to demonstrate and promote opportunities
for youth involvement in agriculture.

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Sub Problems
1. Inconsistent government policies
• Political will
• Improperly conceived policies
2. There is a mindset that agriculture does not
pay
• Perception of low profitability based on
experiences of parents
3. Agriculture production has not been
quantified or developed to meet market
demand
• Lack of market information system

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4. Poor Social amenities: access to land, roads,
electricity, ware housing, water etc.
• Inadequate investment and poor management of
infrastructure development programs
5. Capacity gaps, that include poor management
or business skills
• Inadequate training and undeveloped skills in
agriculture
• Poor agriculture curriculum
• The agribusiness enterprise lack the capacity to factor in
all the costs of production

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6. Limited access to inputs (seeds, fertilizers,
agro-chemicals)
• Inadequate supply
• Expensive
• Poor distribution system
7. Inefficient linkage of all the value chain
operators
• Lack of strong commodity associations
8. Weak private public partnership
• Lack of framework for PPP development

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9.Lack or weak M&E system
• Skills and framework lacking (?)
10. Skills and framework lacking (? Check this up)
• Poor curriculum setup
11. Agricultural science and education is limited
in early primary and high school level
• Poor curriculum setup
12. Limited participation of youth in agricultural
policy formulation in various countries
• Government policy (Lack of inclusiveness in policy
formulation process OR Inadequate consultation)

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13. Capital barriers towards achieving profitable
smallholder agriculture ventures
• Poverty
• High risk usually associated with agriculture
• Lack of interest/willingness from the lending
institutions
14.Difficult access to land by youth
• Land tenure system
15.Weakness on empowering and capacity
building of youth for agriculture
• Inadequate (investment in) training and skills
development

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16. Difficulties on postharvest processing and
utilization
• Poor storage facilities,
• Inappropriate/inadequate tools and infrastructure
17. Illiteracy of most youths in some countries
• Low quality of education
• Lack of awareness
• Poverty
18. Lack of agriculture insurance in agribusiness
• High risk

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19.Lack of agribusiness development and
implementation
• Lack of framework and low emphasis
20. Lack of demand driven and flexible vocational
Centers
• Poor linkages
• Supply-driven approaches to the establishment of
vocational training centers

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21. Weak or ineffective dissemination of
information on new agronomic practices, value
chains and extension system support
• poor extension service delivery
• poor delivery from the extension agent
22. High cost of labor
• Existence of competing/competitive enterprises
• Inability to channel the huge but redundant workforce in
the cities back to agriculture in the rural areas.

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ASANTENI (THANK YOU ALL)
MERCI BEAUCOUP
God Bless