Rural Youth Inclusion, Empowerment and Participation

Trivelli, Carolina; Morel, Jorge

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“…Building the capacity of youths through education and other initiatives and leveraging that to improving their socioeconomic access to industry players in the agricultural sector will increase the likelihood of youth engagement in farming activities [33,70]. As a result, young people would be empowered while gaining the necessary skills to participate in evolving global agriculture value-chains [69].…”

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“…Moreover, how millennials connect to the food system is determined by the biophysical, economic, cultural, and social domains, shaping how they perceive themselves actively contributing to the food system [71]. It is therefore imperative for policies, strategies, and interventions targeted at promoting agricultural growth, development, and participation of youths in the sector to speak to the socioeconomic context, needs, goals, and aspirations of youths [33].…”

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“…Additionally, there was a focus on studies researching youth perceptions, awareness, or attitudes towards agriculture, program, or intervention analysing the economic, social, or political environment factors affecting the participation The PCC (population, context, and concept) nomenclature was adopted to determine the eligibility of this study's research question for a scoping review, and to determine eligibility criteria for the reports included. In terms of population, the study included young people between the ages of 15 and 35, as defined by the African Youth Charter [33]. Aside from agriculture involvement, the context was also inclusive of young people in universities/agricultural institutions or any other agricultural training program.…”

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Youth Participation in Agriculture: A Scoping Review

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Providing economic opportunities for youth in agriculture is essential to securing the future of agriculture in Africa, addressing poverty, unemployment, and inequality. However, barriers limit youth participation in agriculture and the broader food system. This scoping review aimed to investigate the opportunities and challenges for youth in participating in agriculture and the food system in Africa. This review conducted a scoping review using the PRISMA guideline. Published studies were retrieved from online databases (Web of Science, Cab Direct, and Science Direct) for 2009 to 2019. The findings showed that existing agricultural interventions are production-centric and provide low-income earnings and inadequate social protection. We also found that the youth have pessimistic perceptions about agriculture’s capability of improving their living standards. This could be ascribed to the minimal youth involvement in agricultural activities and the youth’s shared understanding of the agricultural sector’s contribution to general economic growth. From a policy perspective, the literature revealed that current agricultural development programs do not adequately address structural issues underpinning youth participation in the economy. Therefore, to enhance the involvement of youths in agriculture, there is a need for policy implementation in the area of integrated agricultural-based interventions that are context-specific and promote meaningful youth participation in shaping future food systems.

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“…These results indicate that in rural communities, special focus should be on inactive youth, with additional efforts made by policy actors to bring them closer to any form of activation to avoid the creation of pockets of (social) exclusion. However, designing specific policies adequate for youth in rural communities is not without difficulties, because public policies designed for promoting youth inclusion usually have urban bias (Trivelli & Morel, 2019). In that respect, a significant constraint can be found in the form of rural communities' fiscal capacities, as recent evidence reveals that youth work activities in Croatia are still primarily organized in closed spaces that local communities have to provide (Orešković, 2021).…”

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Urban–rural differences in youth engagement in Croatia

Botrić

2023

Regional Science Policy & Practice

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Extant studies document a decrease in political participation in most European economies in recent decades; the trend has been more pronounced for youth. Although studies suggest that, at least for youth, traditional modes of participation have been widely replaced with broader civic engagement, little empirical evidence is available for the post‐transition economies, particularly on the sub‐national economy level. By relying on the survey conducted in the spring of 2021, the paper explores differences in the forms of youth engagement in Croatia, disaggregated by settlement size. The focus is on different forms of engagement as well as youth profiles.

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“…It is worth noting here that "meaningful" engagement is strongly tied to subsequent empowerment, since giving youth "the right, the means, the space, and the opportunity and where necessary the support to participate in and influence decisions and engage in actions and activities" helps them to feel invested "to contribute to building a better society" (Council of Europe, 2015:5). In the context of Indigenous territorial governance, this means not only involving young people in the "institutions and decisions that affect their lives" (Checkoway and Gutierrez, 2006:1), but making sure that decisions recognize and, indeed, reflect both their aspirations and evolving socio-political realities (Rajani, 2000;Trivelli and Morel, 2019).…”

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Understanding the role of youth in Indigenous territorial governance

Sarigumba,

Soriano,

Robson

et al. 2023

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Indigenous territories cover more than one-fourth of the world’s land surface, overlap with distinct ecological areas, and harbour significant cultural and biological diversity; their stewardship provides critical contributions to livelihood, food security, conservation, and climate action. How these territories are accessed, used, and managed is an important question for owner communities, state governments, development agencies, and researchers alike. This extends to how broad community memberships remain invested in territorial use and management, with young people comprising one sub-group often underrepresented in decision-making spaces. We know that internal community norms and structures–often dominated by older, adult males–can limit opportunities for youth to contribute their energy and ideas. We also know that youth can and do leave their home communities to pursue life, work, or education goals and aspirations. Drawing on insights from 5 years of collaborative research with the Indigenous Territory of Lomerío (ITL), Bolivia, we explore the roles that youth play in territorial governance, their perceptions of current structures and novel engagement strategies, and consider what lessons from this case could be applied more broadly. Our findings point to the ITL as an instructive example of how Indigenous (and other rural and remote) communities might enable young people to participate more fully in territorial governance, highlighting the importance of an enabling, underlying socio-cultural context. Based on our work in Bolivia, and lessons from other places, we discuss ways to enhance youth-community-territory linkages to support Indigenous land sovereignty and stewardship and reflect on how research co-design and knowledge co-production can help deliver more robust, inclusive, and useful (in an applied sense) empirical insights in support of such efforts.

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Rural Youth Inclusion, Empowerment and Participation

Cited by 7 publications

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Youth Participation in Agriculture: A Scoping Review

Youth Participation in Agriculture: A Scoping Review

Urban–rural differences in youth engagement in Croatia

Understanding the role of youth in Indigenous territorial governance

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