From oyster farming to Ugandas post-war forests: Eleven young entrepreneurs to kickstart the Global Landscapes Forum
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As you'd expect at an event about digital media and social change, there was a lot of talk about youth at the Social Good Summit, a conference where big ideas meet new media to create innovative solutions.
The three-day event, which kicked off Sunday in New York City, brought together an impressive lineup of speakers from non-governmental organizations, government, and the private sector to discuss how technology can solve our greatest challenges.
Over the last decade, both agriculture and young people have become increasingly prominent on African development agendas. Many have concluded that engagement in production agriculture is an obvious (if not the obvious) opportunity through which to address the problem of limited economic opportunity for young people in rural areas.
According to a new article by James Sumberg and Christine Okali, entrepreneurship-based policy and programmes to address the jobs challenge facing young people in rural Africa need to be much more firmly grounded in evidence and analysis. These are the conclusions of the article, Young People, Agriculture, and Transformation in Rural Africa: An Opportunity Space Approach (pdf), published in Innovations Journal.
Engaging the Youth in the Implementation Phase of CAADP Transformation Agenda Knowledge Information and Skills FARA Regional Workshop Report - Executive summary
"The Regional Youth Workshop on Engaging the Youth in the Implementation Phase of the CAADP Transformation Agenda KIS was organized by FARA to develop a strategy for engaging the youth along the strategic stages of the CAADP Agenda as CAADP evolved from the planning phase to the implementation phase. The workshop drew participants from several African countries, including Benin, Burundi, Cameroon, Côte dIvoire, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Mali, Mauritius, Madagascar, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The United Nation Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has released its trade and environment review for 2013. This years review is titled " Wake up before it is too late: Make agriculture truly sustainable now for food security in a changing climate" focused on the relationship between achieving sustainable food security in a changing climate. Below is a highlight from the review.
Developing and developed countries alike need a paradigm shift in agricultural development: from a "green revolution" to a "truly ecological intensification" approach. This implies a rapid and significant shift from conventional, monoculture-based and high external-input-dependent industrial production towards mosaics of sustainable, regenerative production systems that also considerably improve the productivity of small-scale farmers. We need to see a move from a linear to a holistic approach in agricultural management, which recognizes that a farmer is not only a producer of agricultural goods, but also a manager of an agro-ecological system that provides quite a number of public goods and services (e.g. water, soil, landscape, energy, biodiversity, and recreation) UNCTAD's Trade and Environment Review 2013 (TER13) contends.
There are some things about public gatherings in Ghana's capital Accra that are guaranteed. A certain amount of dust and Atlantic spray on the breeze, a sound system blaring Azonto a local music sensation just a bit too loud, fearless children lining up to show off their moves, and an orderly row of canopies where the hot and the tired sit down on plastic chairs and take stock.
But if you looked a little closer at the fair in Ako Adjei park on Saturday, you would have found that what appeared a typical Accra event was quietly masking something quite unusual: a farmers' market. The dozen or so small-scale producers selling their wares at The Accra Green Market were busily making history as participants in Ghana's first ever fair for locally grown, sustainable, organic produce. "This is a great way to give exposure to organic, local products," says Jeffrey Mouganie, 22, founder of Moco Foods, an organic company that produces local forest honey and fiery chilli sauce, guaranteeing a traceable supply chain and hiring workers with disabilities. "The only space we usually get to market our products are at the bazaars of international schools, where we sell to a lot of expats," he says. "But we need more markets like this the best feedback we have had for our products is from Ghanaians."
Climate change in Bhutan is manifesting itself in the formation of dangerous glacial lakes and the increased occurrence of landslides, floods, pests, and diseases, among others. As serious consequences of climate change are felt in Bhutan, climate science is becoming part of the curriculum in the institutes of higher learning.
One such renowned institute, Sherubtse Degree College in eastern Bhutan, has created the Centre for Climate Change and Spatial Information (CCCCSI). The International Centre for Integrated Mountain development (ICIMOD), in collaboration with CCCSI, organized a Youth Forum titled Empowering Youth for Climate Change Research in Bhutan to bring the topic of climate change research to the attention of students throughout Bhutan.
For decades, agronomists and others interested in agricultural development in Africa prioritised the development and promotion of new technology. Across the continent, new crop varieties, soil fertility management regimes, pest control methods and the like have been at the heart of efforts to promote small-holder intensification.
Along the way, there was at least some (at first grudging) recognition of the social, political and institutional aspects of technology and technical change. These factors were brought increasingly into analysis of successful (and unsuccessful) cases of technology development and promotion. More recently, mainstream discourse around agricultural research and technology development in Africa has incorporated broader notions from innovation studies, including innovation systems and innovation platforms.
Christopher Hambly has his career plan mapped out.
He'll finish high school, head off for a few years ideally to study "something to do with agriculture" at the University of Guelph come home and eventually take over the family farm on the outskirts of the Holland Marsh, a lush agricultural area north of Toronto.
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