ENABLE-TAAT Project
The overall goal of Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is to improve agriculture as a business and increase agricultural productivity through the deployment of high-performance agricultural technologies at scale along selected nine commodity compacts such as cassava, wheat, rice, maize, sorghum/millet, orange-fleshed sweet potato, high iron beans, aquaculture, and small livestock (including poultry).
The ENABLE-TAAT project will provide training, technical assistance and facilitate the establishment and expansion of women and youth-led agribusiness enterprises along the TAAT value chains.
The project with technical support from IITA will leverage the IITA-Oyo State Agribusiness Park Center, Awe to support clustered agripreneurs during the early days of their business start-up.
This support will be in the form of shared investments, infrastructure, services, mentoring, access to credit facilities and linkage.
The established agribusiness enterprises at the Agribusiness Park will serve as Incubation and Experiential Learning Centres to train youths in agribusiness.
OBJECTIVES
- Increase agricultural productivity and diversification
- Improve food and nutrition security
- Expand agribusiness opportunities, Job creation including for women through expanded commercialisation and industrialisation.
- Provide agribusiness support
- Advance youth empowerment mechanisms
Youth Entrepreneurship Projects:
- Tomato Value Chain
- Vegetable Value Chain
- Cereal Value Chain
- Livestock Value Chain
- Root and Tuber Value Chain
- Seed Production
The YEASA project aims to link rural youth (18–35 years) with access to agricultural resources, technical and practical skills, credit facilities as well as other services needed to establish agribusiness enterprises and maximise their ability to benefit from existing agrifood systems.
The overall goal of Technologies for African Agricultural Transformation (TAAT) is to improve agriculture as a business and increase agricultural productivity through the deployment of high-performance agricultural technologies at scale along selected nine commodity compacts such as cassava, wheat, rice, maize, sorghum/millet, orange-fleshed sweet potato, high iron beans, aquaculture, and small livestock (including poultry).
Rural Youth Employment Opportunities: Support to Integrated Agribusiness Hubs in Nigeria
The Integrated Agribusiness Hub is a five-year project funded by International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) in collaboration with GIZ and it is geared towards empowering African youth through the establishment of a network of youth-centered Agribusiness Hubs across Africa.