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enhancing-youth-employment-in-rural-africa-challenges-and-opportunities-in-tunisia-dowload

4 Jul 2022

In fact, the COVID-19 pandemic produced a supply shock directly affecting the activity of the main sectors, as well as a drop in demand as a result of the lockdown measures, reduction in the incomes of economic agents, and great uncertainty about the duration and evolution of the pandemic. [...] Which policy interventions are the most relevant to support youth in farming and agribusiness? Organization of the Report Section 2 provides an overview of the potential youth employment in rural Tunisia with the economic context, the demographic dividend, the employment issues and the potential of the farming sector to create jobs. [...] page 12 Figure 6: Distribution of the technical plots by governorates in 2011 Source: Gharbi et al., 2018 The main objectives of the allocation of these lots were the rejuvenation of the population of the agricultural sector, the creation of jobs for rural youth, and the compensation of former cooperators following the dissolution of their associations. [...] This relates to the complexity and constraints that characterize Tunisian agriculture such as the small size of the farms due in most of the cases to inheritance division; the advanced age of farmers with a low level of education and their lack of technology adoption; the climatic conditions and the regular droughts that faces Tunisian agriculture but also the lack of organization of farmers which. [...] The first shows a descriptive analysis with the demographic and socio-economic characteristics of youth agripreneurs, the characteristics of the businesses, the success factors and challenges, the perceptions and aspirations of the surveyed farmers and finally the policies put in place by the government, and those that are still needed by the young agripreneurs.
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74
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Ghana