Entrepreneurship Skills in Food and Nutrition Education: A Panacea for Sustainable Retirement

Abstract

Retirement can be explained as an event in an individual’s life which marks a withdrawal from active service, terminating an accustomed pattern of life and transiting to a new one. It is the stage in which employees have to leave the workforce on a permanent basis so as to prepare for their twilight years. Life after retirement for majority of retirees is not a rosy one owing to ineffective preparation and planning for post-retirement years. Venturing into a business venture at an old age is an interesting phenomenon. Public servants have a variety of economic activities to venture into after retirement and entrepreneurship in Food and Nutrition education is one of those ventures. This paper focuses on the conceptual clarification of Food and Nutrition, Retirees and Entrepreneurship; the Place of Food and Nutrition Entrepreneur-ship in economic sustainability during post retirement. It will discuss extensively on ways of Identifying and exploiting entrepreneurship opportunities in Food and Nutrition for sustainable economic during retirement. It will also identify some of the challenges of Entrepreneurship skill development in Food and Nutrition Education. Adequate preparations and planning by all employees for post-retirement will curb the effects of postretirement anxiety, financial insufficiency, prevailing cost of living, poor feeding, depression and ill-health. Adequate exposure of employees to skills, knowledge and attitude in food and Nutrition education is will help them to develop strong foundation that will enable them sustain the family’s future.