ICT and youth in agriculture in Africa (Report)

This report that I co-authored (with Oluwabunmi Ajilore), on behalf of CTA, examines the role ICTs are playing in supporting youth engagement in agriculture in Africa, and explores the current status, usages and emerging trends.  Furthermore, it highlights the key challenges and opportunities for youth in agriculture and makes recommendations to policy makers and other stakeholders on how to foster increased involvement of young people in the sector.

A key observation the report stresses is that young people using ICTs

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Le CTA lauréat international pour son programme sur la jeunesse et les TIC

©ITU/I.Wood

Un très grand moment de fierté!! – Lire ci-dessous – vidéo en anglais. 

  • Le CTA lauréat international pour son programme sur la jeunesse et les TIC

Le programme du CTA Agriculture, développement rural et jeunesse dans la société de l’information  (ARDYIS) a remporté un prix international lors du Sommet mondial sur la société de l’information (SMSI, où WSIS, selon son sigle en anglais) de 2015. Après avoir été retenu lors d’une première phase de présélection plus tôt cette année, le projet

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Blogging to enhance agriculture: results and findings of the Youth in Agriculture Blog Competition

(Paper presented at the IAALD Chapter Conference 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa, 21-23 May 2012)

Summary:

Strengthening the involvement of youth in agriculture and addressing the challenges they face in embracing agricultural professional activities are pressing issues that determine the prosperity of that sector in Africa, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) regions (CTA, 2011). The new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can also play a pivotal role in that context (SPC-PAFPNet,

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