Never sail by someone else’s star: Agricultural education for Africa
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There is a continent wide recognition that a productive
agriculture is a key driver of national growth. But skilled
professionals in agriculture are in short supply. Africa’s fastestgrowing
and fastest-urbanising population is creating a
“demographic dividend”, which can be cashed in to produce a
virtuous cycle of growth. Africa’s young people are its biggest
asset. With quite modest but sustained investment, but involving
reform and a refocusing of the higher education sector, Africa’s
agriculture could be transformed. Evidence from Latin America
and Asia shows the payback could be fast and substantial.
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