The International Fund for Agriculture Development, IFAD, has blamed the decline in young women’s participation in Agriculture on herdsmen’s criminality.
This was contained in a report released after research funded by the organisation and backstopped by the Institute of Development Studies.
The report also blamed gender discrimination in access to resources, especially to land as another factor hindering young women active participation in Agriculture.
These were made known at a two- day workshop tagged, “Challenges and Opportunities For Rural Youths Employment in Sub-saharan Africa : A Qualitative Study and Results Presentation To Inform Policy And Development Stakeholders”, organised by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan in conjunction with National Root Crops Research Institute , Umudike, held between 8th and 9th March,
in Awka, Anambra State capital.
IFAD called on the Federal Government to address the issue of herder-farmer conflicts to reduce cases of attack on women on farmlands.
It also stressed the need for traditional institutions to review cultural laws on women inheritance, so that women can have access to land for agriculture.
The IFAD-IDS Youth Research Project Lead representative in Nigeria disclosed that the research which was commissioned in 2019, was “carried out in four communities: two in Osun and Anambra States each.
“Indepth knowledge was acquired on the:
employment dynamics of rural young people, and relationships between
these dynamics and welfare; and socially and spatially differentiated perspectives and aspiration of rural young people.
“The main goal was to inform and influence policies, strategies and
programmes that can improve the conditions and opportunities of young
people in rural areas based on realistic futures that they imagine for
themselves.
Others who spoke on the occasion including the Minister of Youth and Sports, Sunday Dare, enjoined the youths to utilise the various States and Federal Government youth empowerment programmes to better their future.
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