“The Mindset Has Changed a Lot”? Situated Agency of Youth Entrepreneurs

Dodaro, Maria

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-50212-5_4

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“…seed, fertilizer and low risk plant protection products (Ajayi 2006;Horna et al 2007;Ali et al 2020;Hidrobo et al 2022;Tesfaye et al 2023). Third, young people in Africa are tech-savvy (Counted and Arawole 2015) with a strong entrepreneurial mindset (Dodaro 2023), hence they can benefit from delivering services and goods using digital tools and emerging technology (Cueto et al 2022). Apart from delivering services, women and young people can also be supported to establish high-value agribusinesses related to commodity production, with a focus on the production of crops that require small pieces of land, at low capital and shorter maturation periods and with readily available markets.…”

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

Kadzamira,

Chege,

Suntharalingam

et al. 2024

CABI Agric Biosci

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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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