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presented by Ronald Costales of Costales Nature Farm during the 2015 AFNR Symposium held last October 1, 2015 at the AIM Conference Center, Makati City
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Presented at: The International Rice Development Conference and Seminar on China-Africa Development
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Agro-tourism is an innovative agricultural activity related to tourism and agriculture both. It has a great capacity to create additional source of income with agriculture. Capex & Opex are both low and profitability is very high as compared to commercial Hotels & Resorts
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Title: Rice cultivation in Africa: How traditional practices relate to modern opportunities
Date: June 26-29, 2019
Presented at: The International Rice Development Conference and Seminar on China-Africa Development
Location: Changsha, China
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In Sweden, Government policy supporting collaborations intended to reduce food waste and production losses has been a great success. In part, due to the specific policy for Global Development (PGD) which supports the creation of platforms for knowledge exchange and multi-sectoral collaboration. This side event will present a number of examples of this policy-led collaboration from the Swedish context relating to the reduction of food waste and production losses throughout the whole food chain, on a global scale.
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Yara:“Farming is our Future”: Rural Youth Discourse on Commercial Agriculture in the Kwaebibirem District in Ghana
1. “Farming is our Future”: Rural Youth Discourse on Commercial
Agriculture in the Kwaebibirem District in Ghana
Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey(Presenter)
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana
torvikeydzifa@gmail.com
Panel Session: Africa’s Youth and Rural Futures:
Critical Perspectives from Young African Academics
Conference on Land Policy in Africa
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – November 2017
www.future-agricultures.org/apra
Funded by UK aid from the UK Government
2. “Farming is our Future”: Rural Youth
Discourse on Agriculture in the
Kwaebibirem District of Ghana
www.future-agricultures.org/apra
3. Outline
Introduction
Research question
Context of commercial agriculture in Kwaebibirem
District
Commercial agriculture as a livelihood option
Access to productive resources: A painful journey
Conclusion
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4. Introduction
• Agriculture as a potential ‘milk cow’ to solve multiple
developmental problems
– Youth unemployment
– Ageing farmers
– Food security, etc
• Youth as instruments for development (Real or imagined)
• Youth- synonymous with migration, laziness, etc.
• Rural-stay-behind youth hardly studied
• Even less their agricultural activities
• The focus of the study……………………
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5. Research questions
1) How has the history of commercial agriculture in
the Kwaebibirem District influenced youth
participation in the sector?
2) Who are these youth and what material
conditions predispose them to engage in
commercial agriculture?
3) From where do youth draw productive resources
for their agricultural activities?
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6. Context of commercial agriculture in
Kwaebibirem District
• Located in the forest zone of Eastern Region of Ghana
• Proximity to the Birim River which is a source of alluvial gold mining
• Entrenched history of commercial agriculture since colonial days
• Shifting crop production systems: Cola, oil palm, cocoa, rice, citrus and
vegetables
• A hub of traditional oil palm processing for internal and international trade.
• Presence of oil palm agro-industries-
– Ghana Oil Palm Development Company Ltd (est. 1975)
– Presidential Special Initiative on Oil Palm (est. mid 2000s)
– Serendipalm Company Ltd into Organic Oil Palm (est. 2008)
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7. Context …
• Intergenerational perspectives
• Wealthy role model farmers sent their kids to school
• Farming is for the uneducated
“if my father had taken me to school, I would never be a farmer. I
became a farmer because I have no qualification to secure a formal
employment”.
• But high educated youth unemployment has changed this perspective
• The withdrawal of youth from contribution to family farms amidst
dwindling availability of family lands
• Return migration from urban areas amidst high cost of living and
worsening urban conditions
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8. Commercial agriculture as a
livelihood option
• Lack of opportunities in the formal sector and
the promise of social mobility that commercial
agriculture brings
• Youth focus on some key crops -rice, oil
palm, cocoa and vegetables
• Each crop has its purpose
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9. Access to productive resources : A
painful journey!
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• Each crop has its own purpose, needs and
use
• Cash crops
• Transition/lifeline crops
• Asset/property crop
10. Cash Crops: The Beginning
short term,
annual rental
Self,
exchange/reciprocal
Labour intensive
Local traders
Inconsistency/price
fluctuation
Seasonality
Short term,
labour
tenancy
Self, hired labour
for planting and
harvesting
Costly and labour
intensive
Traders from urban areas
Declining market due to rice
imports, collapse of the mines
at Akwatia
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11. Transition/lifeline crops: The Momentum
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Oil palm Share-cropping,
gift /inheritance
from mothers and
sometimes fathers,
labour tenancy
Self, hired for
harvesting and
planting
Cheaper to grow/start ,
costly to maintain
Local market/processors
GOPDC
Serendipalm Co
PSI
Traders from urban areas
Seasonality and price
fluctuations
12. Asset/property crop: The ultimate
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Cocoa Share-cropping Self,exchange,hired CocoaMarketingBoard
Fixedpriceswithbonus
sometimes
13. Conclusion
• Youth in commercial agriculture have moved from family farms
to own production
• They are youth of various socio-demographic extractions
• Commercial agriculture must necessarily start with the cash
crops!
• Land, labour and market access and availability key
considerations
• It must end with cocoa!
• The cash crops could be shifted to oblivion but oil palm and
cocoa are permanent
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14. Authors/ Thank You!!!
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Dzodzi Tsikata
Institute of Africa Studies
University of Ghana
dzodzit@yahoo.co.uk
Gertrude Dzifa Torvikey
Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research
University of Ghana
torvikeydzifa@gmail.com
+233243110799
Faustina Obeng Adomaa
Social Science Department
Wageningen University
Netherlands.
fobenga@gmail.com
