Business Daily | by Washe Kazungu
Around May this year, there was a video that went viral on social media and reintroduced the conversation on how agriculture could be made more “attractive” to the youth in Africa.
The video was from the 2018 Youth Employment in Agriculture conference in Kigali, Rwanda. In the video, a young woman presented a number of factors that governments, donors and other non-State actors should consider when promoting agriculture among the youth.
As expected from viral social media content, the video got mixed reactions from the public in general, and from professionals in the sector. Some professionals viewed this take as an oversimplification of a complex matter, while on the other hand, some youth thought she had a valid point…
