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Youth

Youth employment is a pressing challenge throughout Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific. Around 100 million young people will enter the workforce in Africa alone over the next 10 years. The majority will find work in agriculture where capitalising on the potential for sustainable and productive development is critical.

OUR APPROACH

The Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation (CTA) promotes youth entrepreneurship and employment through access to business development services and Information and communication technologies (ICT) solutions. We do this by targeting young entrepreneurs and the institutions that support them to leverage access to finance and markets; showcase best practices and innovative business models; and create pathways to the creation of job opportunities in established agribusinesses.

Building on a strong track record in youth and ICT and a wide network of partners CTA works directly through incubators and established business development service providers, agricultural organisations, NGOs, business associations, agribusiness and ICT firms.

Impact stories

What I find special is how young people are leveraging technology to serve farmers and connect them to markets.
Michael Hailu, Director CTA

CTA and Young ACP Agripreneurs: interview with Michael Hailu

KEY FIGURES

We have stepped up our efforts to encourage youth entrepreneurship

1,000+

YOUNG ICT ENTREPRENEURS SUPPORTED IN 2016

1M

reached by entrepreneurs supported by CTA’s Pitch AgriHack

23,4

IS THE MEDIAN AGE OF THE ACP POPULATION

700K

invested in young ICT start-ups involved in CTA’s AgriHack in 2016

CTA and Youth

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CTA awards Ethiopia’s digital agriculture start-ups

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In partnership with GIZ and iceaddis, and in close collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture of Ethiopia and the Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency, CTA recently awarded six Ethiopian start-ups at the Green Innovation and Agritech Slam 2019 (GIAS2019) competition.

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ProFish: a catch for Ghanaian fisherfolk

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Trackball Global Technologies - Helping urban farmers

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Business models and key success drivers of agtech start-ups

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Pitch AgriHack boosts agri start-up development

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CTA is a joint institution operating under the framework of the Cotonou Agreement between the ACP Group of States (Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific) and the EU Member States (European Union). CTA is funded by the European Union.

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