The Start Them Early Program is a new initiative at the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, (IITA). It operates under the Youth in Agribusiness office with a focus on how to advance agribusiness development to secondary schools in Africa. It is aimed at redirecting the aspirations of young people in secondary schools towards careers in […]
The IITA Youth Agripreneurs (IYA) team in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), in collaboration with the government of the DRC through the Projet Integré de Croissance Agricole dans Les Grands Lacs, (PICAGL) project, on January 29th, organized an innovation and entrepreneurship competition titled “An Evening with Youth in Entrepreneurship and Agribusiness” which doubled as[…..]
Dr. Nteranya Sanginga is the first African director-general of the world-renowned International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) and the father of Agripreneurship. He was born in Bukavu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. His passion for young people made him founding father of the Youth in Agribusiness (YIA) programme, which encourages young ‘agripreneurs’ by spending[…..]
The Youth Employment in Agribusiness and Sustainable Agriculture (YEASA) Project has awarded grants to the youth they trained in Nigeria and the Republic of Benin for the first year of the project, as part of its mandate. The Project, which was launched in July 2019, is set to empower a thousand youths residents in rural[…..]
The International Youth Day (IYD) is observed annually on the 12th of August and it is endorsed by the United Nations to draw the attention of governments and other concerned institutions to pressing challenges of youths worldwide. The program was first launched in 2000. Every year since its inception, a theme rooted in the Sustainable[…..]
The IITA Youth Agripreneurs program has won the 2019 International Innovation Award for sustainable food and Agriculture in recognition of its commitment to improving both agribusiness opportunities and creditworthiness of youth across Africa. The award, the first of its kind, funded by the Government of Switzerland, was presented during the 41st conference of the Food[…..]
The IITA Tanzania Youth Agripreneurs conducted a two-day training on good agricultural practices on Cassava production (root and stem) and entrepreneurship skills at Mkuranga District, Tanzania. The training was in collaboration with the local government authority at Mkuranga District and SIFO organization with a total of 43 youth present. The youth were happy to have[…..]
Jennifer Blanke, the Vice President, Agriculture, Human, and Social Development at the African Development Bank (AfDB) have stated that youth engagement in agribusiness is the future for employment opportunities across Africa. Ms. Blanke stated this on Tuesday, March 26 when she visited the IITA Youth Agripreneurs group at the IITA headquarters in Ibadan. Ms. Blanke[…..]
A trainee of the IITA Youth Agripreneurs, Edmond Ng’walago has emerged as the winner of the 2018 Young Graduate Entrepreneurship award organized by the Royal Netherlands Embassy in collaboration with the National Empowerment Economic Council in Tanzania. Edmond who was selected among 987 young people who applied for the award won the sum of 5,000,000Tsh[…..]
IITA Youth in Agribusiness program was recognized by the Food and Agriculture Organization as one of the twenty innovations in FAO’s first symposium for family members in Rome between 21st and 23rd November and was requested to display at the fair. The success stories displayed were centred around four key challenges to which agricultural innovation[…..]