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Youth Employment and Imagined Futures in Rural Africa

The article below, originally published by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), summarizes key findings of the Future Agricultures Consortium Working Paper. The paper suggests that there is an information gap “between the imagined employment futures for rural young people…in policy and development programming, and the employment futures imagined by…secondary students themselves”.

James Sumberg is a panelist for a debate on the opportunities and risks of investing in rural agricultural programs at the Young Africa Works Summit.

Read the full article here.

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