Description
The article examines the rural youth exodus in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting structural causes such as lack of infrastructure, services, education, and employment opportunities. It discusses the consequences for both rural communities and urban areas and proposes comprehensive solutions: strengthening technical and higher education, promoting youth agribusiness, ensuring access to resources and land, and engaging governments, the private sector, and international cooperation. The goal is to make rural areas sustainable, vibrant, and attractive for young generations.
Institutions:
Authors:
- Dirección de Cooperación Técnica (DCT)
Resultados:
- Increased knowledge
- Sustainable Rural Development
- Employment
- Jobs generated
- Training of skilled technicians
- Gender equity
- Production inclusion
- Technological Innovation
- Improved productivity
- Improved living conditions
- Profitability
- Climate change resilience
- Food and nutritional security
- Environmental sustainability
- Digital transformation
Sectors:
- Agriculture, forestry, and fishery products
- Agrifood (products)
- Agri-Food (total)
- Agri-environmental
- Agrobiotechnology
- Coffee and coffee products
- Science, technology and innovation
- Cereals and cereal products
- Oilseed Crops
- Cut flowers and ornamental plants
- Fruit and vegetables, includes roots and tubers
- Sustainable Livestock
- Dairy
- Agricultural Support Services
- Forestry, Agroforestry, Silvopastoralism and Timber Production
- Food technology
Thematic Areas:
Instruments:
- Access to entrepreneurial financing or seed capital
- International, public-private partnerships
- Support or subsidy for agricultural producer prices
- Support for the adoption of agricultural technologies (transfering to producers)
- Agri-food digitilation
- Agricultural extension services
- Education and training for farmers
- Entrepreneurial capacity building
- Business incubation and acceleration
- Production infrastructure
Languages:
- Español
Beneficiaries:
- Urban or peri-urban farmers
- Family agriculture
- Rural communities
- Private enterprises
- Public institutions
- Youth
- Women
- Producer organizations (cooperatives, etc.)
- Entrepreneurs
- Agricultural producers
Countries:
- Ecuador
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