Can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from Africa
This article examined the driving forces behind young agripreneurs' participation in agripreneurship empowerment programmes and estimates the causal impact of programme participation on agripreneurship skills using data from a random cross-section sample of 1435 young agripreneurs in Kenya, Nig...
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| author | Dolapo Adeyanju John Mburu Wainaina Gituro Chepchumba Chumo Djana Mignouna Noel Mulinganya Waheed Ashagidigbi |
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| description | This article examined the driving forces behind young agripreneurs' participation in agripreneurship empowerment programmes and estimates the causal impact of programme participation on agripreneurship skills using data from a random cross-section sample of 1435 young agripreneurs in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. Specifically, the study took evidence from the youth component of the African Development Bank Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) programme, Empowering Novel Agribusiness-Led Employment (ENABLE). An endogenous switching model was used to identify factors that significantly informed participation decisions and assess the programme's impact on youth agripreneurship skills. Age, education, agripreneurship experience, business level, current residence, and training perception significantly influenced participation. Even though both programme participants and non-participants had high agripreneurship skills scores, participants had higher scores across the three countries than non-participants. The causal impact estimation from the switching regression model also indicates that participation has a positive and significant impact on agripreneurship skills, which implies that the higher score achieved by participants could be attributed to their involvement in the ENABLE-TAAT programme. These results suggest raising awareness of youth agribusiness empowerment programmes and encouraging youth to participate more actively. Additionally, the result suggests the need to implement strategies that could change young people's negative perception of agricultural interventions for increased participation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e6218af17792461ca2df616f63a925db2023-02-03T04:59:31ZengElsevierHeliyon2405-84402023-01-0191e12876Can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from AfricaDolapo Adeyanju0John Mburu1Wainaina Gituro2Chepchumba Chumo3Djana Mignouna4Noel Mulinganya5Waheed Ashagidigbi6Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Nairobi, Kenya; International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), Nigeria; Corresponding author. Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Nairobi, Kenya.Department of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Management Science, School of Business, University of Nairobi, KenyaDepartment of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Science, University of Nairobi, KenyaInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), NigeriaInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), NigeriaDepartment of Agriculture and Resource Economics, Federal University of Technology, Akure, NigeriaThis article examined the driving forces behind young agripreneurs' participation in agripreneurship empowerment programmes and estimates the causal impact of programme participation on agripreneurship skills using data from a random cross-section sample of 1435 young agripreneurs in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. Specifically, the study took evidence from the youth component of the African Development Bank Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) programme, Empowering Novel Agribusiness-Led Employment (ENABLE). An endogenous switching model was used to identify factors that significantly informed participation decisions and assess the programme's impact on youth agripreneurship skills. Age, education, agripreneurship experience, business level, current residence, and training perception significantly influenced participation. Even though both programme participants and non-participants had high agripreneurship skills scores, participants had higher scores across the three countries than non-participants. The causal impact estimation from the switching regression model also indicates that participation has a positive and significant impact on agripreneurship skills, which implies that the higher score achieved by participants could be attributed to their involvement in the ENABLE-TAAT programme. These results suggest raising awareness of youth agribusiness empowerment programmes and encouraging youth to participate more actively. Additionally, the result suggests the need to implement strategies that could change young people's negative perception of agricultural interventions for increased participation.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402300083XYoung agripreneursAgripreneurship programmesAfricaAgripreneurship skillsAgribusiness |
| spellingShingle | Dolapo Adeyanju John Mburu Wainaina Gituro Chepchumba Chumo Djana Mignouna Noel Mulinganya Waheed Ashagidigbi Can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from Africa Heliyon Young agripreneurs Agripreneurship programmes Africa Agripreneurship skills Agribusiness |
| title | Can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from Africa |
| title_full | Can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from Africa |
| title_fullStr | Can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from Africa |
| title_short | Can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from Africa |
| title_sort | can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes evidence from africa |
| topic | Young agripreneurs Agripreneurship programmes Africa Agripreneurship skills Agribusiness |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240584402300083X |
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