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A life-changing experience with I-Youth – Series 2

The Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project recently completed its first year of operations in three states across Nigeria—Kaduna, Kano, and Lagos. Beneficiaries of the project are already speaking out about their experiences and I-Youth’s impact in general. The project runs a “life-changing experience with I-Youth” series; the second part focuses on Samsudeen Kabir Balarabe….

A life-changing experience with I-Youth – Series 1

The Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project has completed year 1 activities across various project components in Kaduna, Kano, and Lagos states. IITA is implementing the I-Youth project in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, cutting across six components: agricultural orientation, agribusiness internships, technical internships, young farmers’ cohort, Start Them Early Program (STEP), and e-commerce. The…

I want to become a classy farmer—STEP club member

Oluwadamilare Opadotun is the secretary of the Start Them Early Program (STEP) club at Vetland Senior Grammar School in Lagos. She was one of the panelists that discussed teachers’ and students’ experiences in teaching and learning agriculture during the I-Youth Connect conference, organized by the Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project in Lagos recently. The…

I-Youth connects beneficiaries to employers and investors

As part of its post-training plan activities for beneficiaries across the three project states in Nigeria, the Innovative Youth in Agriculture (I-Youth) project (formerly known as Young Africa Works) organized a two-day conference in Lagos to link the beneficiaries in the states to investors and potential employers. The conference, which focused on the project’s entrepreneurship…

Youth to contribute innovative solutions to world hunger

The World Food Forum has called for the massive involvement of youth in developing sustainable solutions to the world’s food and hunger problems. The call came during the recent Youth Transformative Challenge webinar. FAO’s Chief Economist and Scientist, Máximo Torero Cullen, told the global audience that youth have a critical role in bringing “out-of-the-box” ideas…