Youth Participation in Smallholder Livestock Production and Marketing
Agriculture is a leading source of employment for rural populations in Kenya. Through a mixed methods approach, this study sought to...
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Agriculture is a leading source of employment for rural populations in Kenya. Through a mixed methods approach, this study sought to...
Non-farm enterprises have generally been perceived as a silver bullet solution for rural unemployment. This article therefore provides...
This article analyses issues surrounding a state-supported self‑employment and entrepreneurship programme in Kenya, the Youth...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
This article unpacks the experiences of 52 young men and women from relatively poor households who received a grant of US$125 from a...
Published by: IDS
Who are the youth and what is the problem? Are entrepreneurship and self-employment the solution? And what about youth aspirations? Such questions are addressed in this issue of the IDS Bulletin, drawing from the literature on how development research affects policy and noting that it says little about how young researchers move into policy engagement.
Published by: IDS
Who are the youth and what is the problem? Are entrepreneurship and self-employment the solution? And what about youth aspirations? Such questions are addressed in this issue of the IDS Bulletin, drawing from the literature on how development research affects policy and noting that it says little about how young researchers move into policy engagement.
Published by: IDS
The non-farm enterprise sector plays an important role in the rural economy in Ghana. It constitutes about 35 per cent of rural incomes and engages around 21.2 per cent of the national labour force. In rural areas it employs about 13.8 per cent.
Published by: IDS
The national youth (persons between 18 and 30 years of age) unemployment rate in Uganda currently stands at 19.7 per cent, and a significant proportion are returned, formerly displaced youth, displaced as a result of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) civil war in the northern part of the country.
Published by: IDS
Urban youth employment is a fundamental challenge that will shape Ethiopia’s present and future development. In the coming two decades, the urban population is expected to triple from the current 19 per cent.
Published by: IDS
Poverty and poor livelihood prospects are driving tens of thousands of young people from rural northern regions to southern cities in Ghana in the hope of achieving better jobs and greater social mobility.