The global population is growing, and getting younger by the day across Africa and Asia. Young women and men in these continents need jobs or support to start their own businesses. Food systems are straining to feed this expanding population and need to evolve to do this sustainably.
Using tools, frameworks, case studies, interactive sessions and site visits, this course blends practical hands-on training with cutting-edge research. It will provide you with a strengthened conceptual and practical understanding of food systems, labour markets, entrepreneurship, education and livelihoods. The result will be a greater ability to analyze these multiple challenges and come up with practical solutions to tackle them.
The global population is growing, and getting younger by the day across Africa and Asia. Young women and men in these continents need jobs or support to start their own businesses. Food systems are straining to feed this expanding population and need to evolve to do this sustainably.
Using tools, frameworks, case studies, interactive sessions and site visits, this course blends practical hands-on training with cutting-edge research. It will provide you with a strengthened conceptual and practical understanding of food systems, labour markets, entrepreneurship, education and livelihoods. The result will be a greater ability to analyze these multiple challenges and come up with practical solutions to tackle them.
- Organized by: Wageningen Centre for Development Innovation
- Date: Mon 1 November 2021 until Fri 10 December 2021
- Duration: Part-time, 16hrs per week (6 weeks)
- Venue: Facilitated online sessions
- Price: EUR 4,100.00
- Scholarship available: Yes
What will you learn?
- How to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the education, labour and finance markets for youth, and how to improve them;
- How to apply various tools and models, including food systems modelling, to raise the socio-economic impact from multiple country case studies and site visits in the Netherlands;
- Good practices to apply about general trends in demographics, nutrition, and migration;
- New methods of teaching, training and managing multi-stakeholder partnerships;
- How gender, age, education and access to resources makes youth a heterogeneous group and requires different approaches to successfully target them.
For who is this course?
This course is intended for practitioners, business leaders and policy makers, preferably with a minimum of 3 years practical work experience. Applicant backgrounds include;
- Business leaders in the agri-food, educational and finance sectors;
- Practitioners in development and aid-funded programmes;
- Public sector workers and policy makers working in the fields of agriculture, education, finance or youth & gender;
- Researchers from think-tanks, universities or other educational institutes.
Participants are intentionally selected from a variety of backgrounds so that during group work participants also learn from the variety of one anothers experience.
Course programme in more detail
During this course you will learn how to address the overlapping challenges of employment for young women and men within changing food systems. Food systems innovate to sustainably feed a growing global population. Blending practical
case studies with complex modeling, this course will benefit project practitioners, business leaders and policy-makers alike. Click here to get more details.
Application for this course
Click here to apply for the course 'Youth entrepreneurship in agriculture and changing food systems'. Depending on your nationality, your organisation and the type of course you wish to join, your eligibility and the application procedures may differ. Find out more about the requirements and the application process.
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