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Youth in Africa
  • Almost half of world’s population in 2050 will be African youth.
  • However, unemployment, food insecurity remain a challenge to African youth.
  • Political will and financing are the keys to African youth agribusiness development.

As projections continue to show that the youth in Africa will make up half of the entire world in the two and a half decades (25yrs) alone, one wonders what will be the economic health of this half of the world? According to an Oxford Business Group report on agriculture as a business, experts review African youth as both a problem and a solution to global development, now and the not so distant future as well.

Already, youth in Africa suffer from under education or a total lack thereof, they are unemployed, malnourished and they are dependent; if the trend continues, then by 2050, then this distraught condition of today’s African youth will be the sad and …