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Addressing Africa's Youth Employment and Food Security Crisis: The Role of African Agriculture in Job Creation

By: 
H E Olusegun Obasanjo
Publisher: 
ACBF
Date of publication: 
2015

H.E. Olusegun Obasanjo, former president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria in this memoir discusses the critical factors responsible for food insecurity in the sub-Saharan Africa. He argues that there are numerous actions that governments should take to address critical barriers to youth involvement in agriculture—a way of tackling both the massive youth unemployment and food insecurity in Africa.

Category: 
Development Memoirs
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