Poverty persists in many developing countries, including Nigeria, owing to inadequate infrastructure, unemployment, or poor working conditions, among other factors. Youth poverty and vulnerability to poverty have been identified to prevalent among the young population. Using an endogenous switching probit regression approach, in this study, we evaluated the impacts of youth participation in agribusiness programs (YIAPs) on poverty and vulnerability to poverty in Nigeria. Our findings revealed that some demographic and institutional factors significantly influence poverty and vulnerability to poverty among youth. The impact estimates indicate that participation in an agribusiness program has a significant positive effect on poverty reduction among youth. Moreover, there would have been about a 28% reduction in exposure to future poverty for non-participants had they participated in a YIAP. Our results suggest that intervention programs, such as YIAPs, that focus on skill acquisition and youth empowerment should be strengthened and scaled-up in order to improve youth welfare and subsequently reduce/eradicate poverty and vulnerability to poverty among youth.

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Tahirou Abdoulayehttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8072-1363

Victor Manyonghttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2477-7132

Zoumana BAMBAhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-8913-3357

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Social Science and Agribusiness

Agribusiness; Agronomy; Capacity Development; Food Security; Socioeconomy

Poverty; Youth; Agribusiness; Nigeria

Africa; West Africa

Nigeria

Eastern Africa Hub; Central Africa Hub; Headquarters and Western Africa Hub

Agriculture