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Can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from Africa

dc.contributor.authorAdeyanju, D.F.
dc.contributor.authorMburu, J.
dc.contributor.authorGituro, W.
dc.contributor.authorChumo, C.
dc.contributor.authorMignouna, D.
dc.contributor.authorMulinganya, N.
dc.contributor.authorAshagidigbi, W.M.
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-05T09:04:21Z
dc.date.available2023-06-05T09:04:21Z
dc.date.issued2023-01-07
dc.identifier.citationAdeyanju, D.F., Mburu, J., Gituro, W., Chumo, C., Mignouna, D., Mulinganya, N. & Ashagidigbi, W.M. (2023). Can young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from Africa. Heliyon, 9(1), 1-12.
dc.identifier.issn2405-8440
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12478/8192
dc.description.abstractThis article examined the driving forces behind young agripreneurs’ participation in agripreneurship empowerment programmes and estimates the causal impact of programme participation on agripreneurship skills using data from a random cross-section sample of 1435 young agripreneurs in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda. Specifically, the study took evidence from the youth component of the African Development Bank Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) programme, Empowering Novel Agribusiness-Led Employment (ENABLE). An endogenous switching model was used to identify factors that significantly informed participation decisions and assess the programme’s impact on youth agripreneurship skills. Age, education, agripreneurship experience, business level, current residence, and training perception significantly influenced participation. Even though both programme participants and non-participants had high agripreneurship skills scores, participants had higher scores across the three countries than non-participants. The causal impact estimation from the switching regression model also indicates that participation has a positive and significant impact on agripreneurship skills, which implies that the higher score achieved by participants could be attributed to their involvement in the ENABLE-TAAT programme. These results suggest raising awareness of youth agribusiness empowerment programmes and encouraging youth to participate more actively. Additionally, the result suggests the need to implement strategies that could change young people’s negative perception of agricultural interventions for increased participation.
dc.format.extent1-12
dc.language.isoen
dc.subjectYouth
dc.subjectAgribusiness
dc.subjectCapacity Development
dc.subjectAfrica
dc.titleCan young agripreneurs improve their skills through agripreneurship empowerment programmes? Evidence from Africa
dc.typeJournal Article
cg.contributor.crpRoots, Tubers and Bananas
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversity of Nairobi
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute of Tropical Agriculture
cg.contributor.affiliationFederal University of Technology, Akure
cg.coverage.regionAfrica
cg.coverage.regionEast Africa
cg.coverage.regionWest Africa
cg.coverage.countryKenya
cg.coverage.countryNigeria
cg.coverage.countryUganda
cg.coverage.hubHeadquarters and Western Africa Hub
cg.researchthemeSocial Science and Agribusiness
cg.identifier.bibtexciteidADEYANJU:2023
cg.isijournalISI Journal
cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country institute
cg.iitasubjectAgribusiness
cg.iitasubjectCapacity Development
cg.iitasubjectSmallholder Farmers
cg.journalHeliyon
cg.notesOpen Access Journal; Published online: 07 Jan 2023
cg.accessibilitystatusOpen Access
cg.reviewstatusPeer Review
cg.usagerightslicenseCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 0.0)
cg.targetaudienceScientists
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e12876
cg.iitaauthor.identifierDjana Babatima Mignouna: 0000-0002-4074-2928
cg.futureupdate.requiredNo
cg.identifier.issue1: e12876
cg.identifier.volume9


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