Presentation on rural youth and territorial development under Pillar 2B at the 12th OECD Rural Development Conference on Delivering Well-being, 24-26 September 2019, Seoul Korea. Presentation by Ignacia Fernandez, RIMISP. More information: https://www.oecd.org/rural/rural-development-conference/

1. Rural youth and territorial
development
12th OECD Rural Development Conference
Delivering well-being
Ma. Ignacia Fernández G.
Seoul, 25th September, 2019

2. Message 1. Rural youth is migrating, but not all
rural areas are losing youth
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
Youth Older than 29 Youth Older than 29 Youth Older than 29
Ecuador Mexico Peru
National Rural rural-urban Urban
Gross migration as share of the population

3. Net receivers and net senders of youths by degree of urbanization
Youth migration Ecuador Mexico Peru
% municipalities Receiver Sender Receiver Sender Receiver Sender
Rural 39.39 60.61 50.18 49.82 16.64 83.36
Rur-urbano 42.98 57.02 37.31 62.69 43.42 56.58
Urbano 100 0 47.17 52.83 88.89 11.11
Total 39.94 60.06 44.97 55.03 21.15 78.85
 Rural: with less than 15,000 inhabitants
 Rural-urban: between 15,000 and 300,000 inhabitants
 Urban: with more than 300,000 inhabitant
Message 1. Rural youth is migrating, but not all
rural areas are losing youth

4. Youth migration and agriculture dependence
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10
20
30
40
50
60
70
Ecuador Mexico Perú
Dependence on agriculture by municipal migration status
Net sender Net receiver
Message 1. Rural youth is migrating, but not all
rural areas are losing youth

5. Dimension Rural youth Rural-urban youth Urban youth
Work is "very important" in
your life
74,5% 71% 62,9%
You worry "a lot" about
losing your job and not
finding a new one
64,5% 61,2% 51,1%
You do not identify
"anything" with wanting to
be rich, having lots of
money and luxurious things
35,3% 26,2% 24,3%
Message 2. Young rural men and women value
their rural environment highly
Six Latin American countries, 18 to 29 years, N = 3.301
Economic inclusion expectations

6. Message 2.
Young rural
men and
women value
their rural
environment
highly

7. Message 3. A territorial approach to development
constitutes an effective and transformative tool
to address the challenges faced by rural youth.

8. Territorial
configurations
Economic opportunities
Agrarian structure and
governance of Nat Resources
Coalitions
Public goods and
services
Proximity to cities
Violence
Environmental vulnerability
Message 3. A territorial approach to development
constitutes an effective and transformative tool
to address the challenges faced by rural youth.