The International Fund for Agriculture Development has blamed young women’s decline in Agriculture on herdsmen’s criminality.
This was contained in a research funded by the organisation and backstopped by the Institute of Development Studies.
The Finding also blamed gender discrimination in access to resources, especially land, as another factor militating against young women active participation in Agriculture.
These were disclosed in a two- day workshop by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan in conjunction with National Root Crops Research Institute, Umudike held in Awka, the Anambra State capital.
The workshop has its tittle as,” Challenges and opportunities for rural youths employment in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Qualitative Study and results presentation to inform policy and development stakeholders.”
Unveiling the research in Awka, the IFAD charged Federal Government to address the issue of herder-farmer conflicts to reduce cases of attack on women on farmlands.
It called on traditional institutions to review rules on women inheritance, to enable women have access to land for agriculture.
The main goal of the workshop is to inform and influence policies, strategies and programmes that can improve the conditions and opportunities of young people in rural areas, based on realistic futures that they imagine for themselves.
The Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr. Sunday Dare, and other speakers on the occasion, urged the youths to make use of the various States and Federal Governments youth empowerment programmes to better their future.
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