560,000 individuals, predominantly youth and women, will have access to dignified and fulfilling work by 2022, through the Mastercard Foundation Young Africa Works in Nigeria partnership with Babban Gona.

Recognizing that employment is a pathway out of poverty, the partnership seeks to empower individuals in the agricultural value chain and support the acceleration of agribusinesses by using technology to provide smallholders with training and education, access to cost-effective financing, as well as harvesting and marketing support services. These services and products encourage smallholders to overcome the challenges of supply-side fragmentation and low economies of scale. Babban Gona provides this support by franchising thousands of grassroots level farmer cooperatives, called “Trust Groups”.

In 2020 alone, the partnership successfully created 82,000 jobs, of which 70% were for youth and 33% for women. Over the last year, Babban Gona leveraged the support of the Mastercard Foundation to grow to new record levels; with 80,000+ acres under cultivation with a recent diversification into rice farming; more than 38,000 smallholder farmer members; and more than 18,500 female entrepreneurs supported across six states of operation.

Talatu, a female entrepreneur and Trust Group Leader said, “I am grateful to Babban Gona for changing my life. I look around and can see the transformation that has taken place in our home. My children are well-fed and in good schools; we have also refurbished our home and bought additional land. All I see around me is growth.”

Read more here: https://babbangona.com/560000-young-people-in-nigeria-to-secure-work-through-babban-gona-mastercard-foundation-partnership/

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Please verify claims before you judge....what they posted about babangona is true sir. Don't come and be a doubting Thomas and miss out on this big deal

This is interesting, but how do they intend to scale this?

Babbangona. The largest employer of labour in Kaduna state and environs

Amen!.

Quite impressive to see more foreign investments/initiatives in the Agricultural sector.

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