"Urban areas are not paradise", says 29 year-old Noureni Yacoubou. Facing unemployment in his home area of northern Benin, he chose to invest in agricultural training, turning his back on the growing trend to head to the city for work. Now graduated from the Songhai Centre in Porto Novo, a training centre which equips students to establish small-scale businesses in rural areas, he manages his own cattle enterprise which employs 50 people from his community." ...

Read the full article by Georgina Smith, May 2011, on New Agriculturist!

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