Agriculture and youth in Nigeria: Aspirations, challenges, constraints, and resilience

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR single centreen
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.crpClimate Change, Agriculture and Food Security
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2NG
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionSub-saharan Africa
cg.coverage.regionWestern Africa
cg.creator.identifierHagar ElDidi: 0000-0002-2685-5416
cg.creator.identifierClaudia Ringler: 0000-0002-8266-0488
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133798en
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Environment and Production Technology Division
cg.identifier.projectIFPRI - Gender, Climate Change and Nutrition Integration Initiative (GCAN)
cg.identifier.publicationRankNot ranked
cg.number1946en
cg.placeWashington, DCen
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen
dc.contributor.authorElDidi, Hagaren
dc.contributor.authorBidoli, Thomasen
dc.contributor.authorRingler, Claudiaen
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-22T12:14:52Zen
dc.date.available2024-05-22T12:14:52Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/143529
dc.titleAgriculture and youth in Nigeria: Aspirations, challenges, constraints, and resilienceen
dcterms.abstractNigeria’s rural youth are facing various challenges in agriculture, with limited job opportunities outside the sector. Using qualitative focus group discussions and individual interviews with youth in four communities in two Nigerian states, the paper reflects on nuanced differences in perceptions of opportunities, coping mechanisms and overall resilience of youth in rural Nigeria, as well as differential access to information, inputs and irrigation based on age, gender and community. We apply the GCAN framework, to illustrate the factors that shape resilience pathways in the context of climate change and other shocks and stressors. Many of the constraints rural youth face are faced by other groups, including lack of finance, farm inputs and modern equipment for production and processing. Yet, youth face higher and specific hurdles related to lack of capital, experience and a strong social capital and networks that would facilitate coping with climatic and other shocks and improving their livelihoods. Young women in particular have less access to information and irrigation, and are less likely to benefit from cooperative memberships. Nevertheless, young men and women have higher resilience compared to older groups in terms of health, mobility and ability to migrate, as well as easier access to the internet as a source of information. Youth can better build resilience and a network and receive government assistance when part of a cooperative. Nevertheless, a larger enabling environment in the sector is needed, to improve roads, access to markets, information, inputs and equipment to support young farmers who cannot leave the agriculture sector. A promising factor is that many young men and women realize the importance of agriculture and aspire to become successful in the sector.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.bibliographicCitationElDidi, Hagar; Bidoli, Thomas; and Ringler, Claudia. 2020. Agriculture and youth in Nigeria: Aspirations, challenges, constraints, and resilience. IFPRI Discussion Paper 1946. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133798.en
dcterms.extent71 p.en
dcterms.isPartOfIFPRI Discussion Paperen
dcterms.issued2020-05-01
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherInternational Food Policy Research Instituteen
dcterms.relationhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/146518en
dcterms.replaceshttps://ebrary.ifpri.org/digital/collection/p15738coll2/id/133798en
dcterms.subjectyouth employmenten
dcterms.subjectgenderen
dcterms.subjectagricultural extensionen
dcterms.subjectfarmersen
dcterms.subjectwateren
dcterms.subjectcapacity developmenten
dcterms.subjectyouthen
dcterms.subjectagricultureen
dcterms.subjectirrigationen
dcterms.subjectcooperativesen
dcterms.subjectdecision makingen
dcterms.subjectmigrationen
dcterms.subjectaccess to informationen
dcterms.subjectrural areasen
dcterms.subjectresilienceen
dcterms.subjectclimate changeen
dcterms.typeWorking Paper

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