The Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources Policy Analysis Network (FANRPAN), in collaboration with the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) commissioned 6 Country Case Studies (Malawi, Mauritius, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zimbabwe) in November 2011 on current and emerging youth policies and initiatives with a special focus on links to Agriculture. The announcement of these case studies was made during the Regional Dialogue in September 2011, where the theme of the conference was “Advocating for the active engagement of the youth in the Agricultural Value-chain”.
This year, the FANRPAN Annual High Level Regional Food Security Policy Dialogue will be held from 3-7 September 2012 in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania with the theme “From Policy to Practice: Advocating for the Active Engagement of Youth in Agriculture Value Chains”, whereby the 6 Country Case Studies conducted by youth representatives from each of these countries will be synthesised into a Regional Report, that will give a bird’s eye view of the current situation, identify gaps and better target interventions. The final report will be presented at the Regional Dialogue in September 2012.
Prior to the FANRPAN 2012 Regional Dialogue, a Twitter campaign will be run by each of the 6 young consultants who conducted the Country Case Studies from 1st to 31st August 2012 to engage youths and others who are interested in the case-studies in discussions on Twitter.
In order to participate in the Twitter campaign, you need to know the following:
The Twitter campaign will run for 4 weeks and each week, the focus will be on a specific topic, and hence will have a specific Hashtag (#) described below:
Week 1 (1-7 Aug) – Topic: Youth Perceptions on Agriculture – #youthagperc
Week 2 (8-14 Aug) – Topic: NationalPolicies as Key Drivers – #youthagpol
Week 3 (15-21 Aug) – Topic: Institutions and Mechanisms for Youth Engagement – #youthageng
Week 4 (22-31 Aug) – Topic: Opportunities for Youth in Agriculture – #youthagopp
The Twitter handles of the youth running the campaign are as follows (make sure you Follow them)!:
Calvin Kamchacha (Malawi Case Study) : @calvinmalawi
Nawsheen Hosenally (Mauritius Case Study) : @nawsheenh
Obert Mathivha (South-Africa Case Study) : @omathivha
Mduduzi Dlamini (Swaziland Case Study) : @mduduzidlamini9
Evodius Rutta (Tanzania Case Study) : @erutta83
Tavaka Nyoni (Zimbabwe Case Study) : @the_imperium
Please find all the Country Case Studies on this Link: All Country Case Studies
If you are a Youth in Agriculture and you want your voice to be heard, this is the opportunity you should grab!
This is not all!
To complement the Twitter campaign launched by FANRPAN, YPARD will be supporting this initiative by providing an online platform to discuss on the weekly topics, whereby you will be able to give feedbacks on the different case studies and share your opinions!
By the end of the campaign, the discussions will be summarised and shared with you!
Join the debate with FANRPAN and YPARD on this Link: FANRPAN Youth Case Studies- e-discussions
We look forward to hear from you!
I have found these to be interesting case studies. They make very good reading for African policy makers. I wish this was extended to Zambia as well.
Thanks for the feedback Darlington. Yes, it would have been nice to have Zambia too..
Indeed it is an opportunity for youth engaged in agriculture to participate in this campaign..Atleast our voice will be heard!
Thanks to be willing to participate in the campaign Dash. We tried our best to get the youth voice in the case studies and I believe any youth in Agriculture will see himself/herself fitting somewhere.
great job , i just make a summarize view of your report. It’s true even in cameroon that the youth are attracted by “white collar” jobs and not by agriculture.. Gabriel
Thanks Gabriel for the statement. Apparently such is the case over the World. Youths are being attracted by white-collar jobs and only few getting into Agriculture..
That’s indeed a great opportunity, especially after having recently been exposed to Twitter and discovering that we are not limited to our current static job positions:) thanks for sharing and helping other youths to voice out! You are doing awesome work, I wish you all the best to keep it up!:)
Thanks loads Sweet. And log on to Twitter regularly to check on the discussions! 🙂
It is an interesting project,Great job. Keep on the good work my dear. Greetings from the foot of Mt. Cameroon.
Thank you dear! 🙂
Dear Nawsheen
I personally see this as a great opportunity for the fresh learners of twitter to get hands on practice. At the same time we will be able to voice out our opinions as others have mentioned earlier. Eagerly waiting to see my other workshop friends’ responses on twitter as well.
You are right. And Thank you for your active participation. Keep it up! 🙂
However, I am quite disappointed to see that many youths who were trained during the workshop did not contribute (except 2 or 3) despite knowing how to use Twitter or other web 2.0 platforms. Is it because they are too busy in their work or they think this issue is not of interest to them or we still do not have this culture of using web 2.0 for collaboration? These questions keep on coming to my mind. I wonder what other reasons could be.
We are talking about integrating web 2.0 in our work, but I barely see it happening soon, since we still do not have this “Sharing culture”.
Sure way to project the voice of agriculture. Encouraging initiative!
Thanks Raymond! Still in Taiwan or in Zimbabwe? You can have a look at the Case study from Zimbabwe and share your views: http://dialogue2012.fanrpan.org/sites/default/files/case_studies/Country_Case_Study-Zimbabwe-April2012.pdf