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Unemployment is rising rapidly across sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2018, the Agripreneurship Alliance has worked to empower young people with skills to start sustainable agribusinesses, fostering income generation and job creation. Over 200 businesses have launched or grown. This project will develop a free online training platform for individuals and organisations supporting entrepreneurs, building on our proven experience to reach even more aspiring young agri-food entrepreneurs across Africa.
The rapid rates of population growth and urbanisation in Africa present both an opportunity and a challenge for the continent and its agriculture sector. Over 60 percent are below 25 years of age. Ten to twelve million young people enter the job market every year and only one in four able to find formal employment. The agri-food sector provides a huge opportunity for Africa's young entrepreneurs, creating jobs and reducing Africa's dependence on food imports.
Over the past 6 years, the Agripreneurship Alliance has demonstrated the value of solid training in Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness. Through Training of Trainers, over 1350 youth have been trained in 7 African countries with strong impact. Over the past years, organisations such as incubators and accelerators have significantly developed in Africa. By making our training materials available for these organisations more young people will be reached, creating more businesses and employment.
The long term impact is to further strengthen the African-led incubators and accelerators by making state of the art training materials available. This will complement the on-going work of the Agripreneurship Alliance which is helping build the ecosystem of support for young entrepreneurs across Africa. These new businesses source agricultural materials from smallholder farmers helping them to move out of poverty and into the formal economy
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