How can young professionals play an active role in advancing the agricultural economy?

Today, more than 60 percent of the population in sub-Saharan Africa is under the age of 25, and Africa’s youth population is expected to double by 2050.

Unfortunately, job creation is unable to keep pace with the rapid rise in the African workforce, and there are almost 8 million more young people entering the labor market each year than there are available job opportunities. As a result, less than one-quarter of young people entering the job market will find paid formal-sector employment.

To succeed in this challenging environment, young professionals will have to be entrepreneurial and be able to identify new business opportunities. You’ll need to understand the challenges facing your country as you seek to innovate and invent, to develop a new product, to provide a service, to develop a niche market, to adopt a new technology, to add value to the supply chain, and to create your own job.

With global demand for agricultural and food products on the rise as a result of population growth, urbanization, income growth, an expanding middle class and changing diets, there are incredible opportunities all across the food supply chain to find where you fit.

As young African leaders, you have the opportunity to be the CEOs, the scientists, the farmers and the philanthropists, the innovators and inventors, the engineers and the entrepreneurs who will feed the world, protect the planet, improve human health, grow the global economy, strengthen your community, improve your household, and empower others to achieve their potential.

In advancing the agricultural economy, you have the opportunity to be one of those real-life heroes whose hands touch the soil and the lives of all humankind.

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