Accounting for Heterogeneity among Youth: A Missing Link in Enhancing Youth Participation in Agriculture—A South African Case Study

Madende, Primrose; Henning, Johannes I. F.; Jordaan, Henry

doi:10.3390/su15064981

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“…Therefore, based on the classification proposed by DFID, the paper constructed an assessment index system of rural household livelihood sustainability from five dimensions of livelihood capital, including human, natural, physical, financial, and social capital. Then, considering the existing references [35][36][37][38][39][40] on indicators related to livelihood capital and the availability of data in the study area, 17 representative indicators of the criteria layer were identified (Table 1). More details about the references and category assignment of each index are given in Appendix A (Table A1).…”

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Sustainable Livelihood Evaluation and Influencing Factors of Rural Households: A Case Study of Beijing Ecological Conservation Areas

Guo

Xie

2023

Sustainability

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Rural households’ livelihood sustainability is the core issue that affects their production and life standards, and it is a necessary evaluation index for rural sustainable development. As a sensitive area of urban–rural integration development in Beijing, the environmental protection measures and industrial structure adjustments in ecological conservation areas (ECAs) have influenced the sustainability and stability of local rural households’ livelihood. First, based on livelihood capital quantification data, this study established an evaluation model of rural households’ livelihood sustainability, which employed the combined weighting approach and the technique for order preference by similarity to ideal solution (TOPSIS). Second, this study investigated the influencing factors of rural households’ livelihood using the methodologies of regression analysis and the mediating effect. The results showed the following: (1) the overall livelihood sustainability of rural households was at a medium level, scoring 0.4436; (2) the sanitation conditions of the community were rated as the critical factor with a positive impact on rural households’ livelihood, which was followed by the frequency of online shopping, family expenditure, and management capability of village cadres; (3) improving one’s rural household income can enhance rural livelihood sustainability indirectly. Finally, effective livelihood strategies were explored and put forward for ECA development.

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Sustainable Livelihood Evaluation and Influencing Factors of Rural Households: A Case Study of Beijing Ecological Conservation Areas

Guo

Xie

2023

Sustainability

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“…Despite these benefits, training/capacity building efforts should not be blanket for all engagement with young people, even for the same technical area or geographical location, but should be contextualized to the specific young people that one is dealing with. This is because young people in agriculture are not a homogeneous group but differ due to numerous factors (Maïga et al 2020;Geza et al 2021;Madende et al 2023).…”

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African women and young people as agriculture service providers—business models, benefits, gaps and opportunities

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We use a combination of a global desk review of the literature with information from an on-going action research in Kenya to provide insights into the main characteristics, benefits and shortfalls of business models for engaging women and young people in agricultural service provision in Africa. The findings demonstrate that the engagement of African women and young people in agricultural service provision is not a panacea to the challenges they face. However various business models have been successful in contributing to economic empowerment, to increasing entrepreneurial activities and to upskilling of women and young people engaged as service providers. Business models that are successful are place-based and people-focused, market-driven and focused on value chains. Challenges however abound due to various factors, hence for sustainability there is need for multi-sectoral inter-institutional collaboration that pulls in funding and which makes a case for private sector buy-in. Future research should focus on increasing the evidence base to understand if successes with inclusion of women and young people in agricultural service provision has an influence on emerging agricultural policy. Research should also rigorously assess the extent to which successful agricultural service provision business models are engendered, provide sufficient levels of renumeration and the extent to which they impact farmer outcomes.

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“…Four typologies developed by Madende et al (2023) were selected for the purpose of creating development pathways that are tailor-made for selected youth typologies. The selected typologies are, (1) job secure, (2) gender sensitive with negative PsyCap, (3) social grant reliant households and (4) resource-poor traditional livestock farmers.…”

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“…Development pathways developed for specific typologies of people have been considered key to guiding interventions to achieve specific development outcomes in agriculture (Chipfupa and Tagwi 2021;Madende et al 2023). Typologies have been applied in the literature to guide and coordinate specific interventions within development pathways, for a specific group, to achieve a given outcome.…”

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“…The aim of this research is to develop and validate tailor-made development pathways based on typologies of youth developed by Madende et al (2023), to enhance the participation of youth in agricultural activities. Such development pathways can guide support interventions that promote youth participation in agricultural activities and businesses in a holistic and functional manner.…”

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Tailor-Made Development Pathways: A Framework to Enhance Active Participation of Youth in Agriculture

Madende,

Henning,

Jordaan

2023

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The development of youth to actively engage in agriculture could address the persistent youth unemployment problem. For youth to actively engage in agriculture, adequate access to key productive resources is necessary. The main aim of this article is to develop and validate tailor-made development pathways based on the characteristics of four youth typologies, addressing the constrained access to key livelihood capitals, and to enhance the participation of youth in agriculture. The pathways are developed based on the Modified Sustainable Livelihood Framework (MSLF), which includes six livelihood capitals, namely, physical, natural, social, financial, human and psychological capitals. Four pathways were developed and named Business-oriented, Gender-oriented, Occupation-oriented and Livestock-oriented. Through focus group discussions, the pathways were validated to determine whether they can be used successfully to facilitate the participation of youths in agriculture. The results confirm that tailor-made development pathways can be used to develop youth characterised by the typology that informed that pathway, to actively engage in agriculture. The implementation of support strategies to support youth in agriculture, should therefore, be guided by the specific needs of different typologies. This allows for the coordination and coherence of youth support initiatives to enhance access to resources, which can yield improvements to desired development outcomes compared to initiatives implemented as piecemeals.

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Accounting for Heterogeneity among Youth: A Missing Link in Enhancing Youth Participation in Agriculture—A South African Case Study

Cited by 5 publications

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Sustainable Livelihood Evaluation and Influencing Factors of Rural Households: A Case Study of Beijing Ecological Conservation Areas

Sustainable Livelihood Evaluation and Influencing Factors of Rural Households: A Case Study of Beijing Ecological Conservation Areas

African women and young people as agriculture service providers—business models, benefits, gaps and opportunities

Tailor-Made Development Pathways: A Framework to Enhance Active Participation of Youth in Agriculture

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