Current and Emerging Youth Policies and Initiatives with a Special Focus on Links to Agriculture

Current and Emerging Youth Policies and Initiatives with a Special Focus on Links to Agriculture - South African Case Study Draft Report The 2012 FANRPAN Youth Policy Review Report presents the current national policy trends within the context of post-1994 Land and Agrarian Reform, global changing environment; with special focus on youth engagement and participation in the policy formulation, planning and implementation across the food value chains. In this edition, socio-economic challenges surrounding vulnerable rural youth such as increasing levels of poverty (particularly in rural areas), unemployment, disease burden, unhealthy and risky behavior, crime, rising cost of living, climate change and growing population are identified and analyzed against existing and emerging policies within the agricultural sector. The whole exercise is aimed at identifying policy gaps and challenges that hinders and/or promote meaningful participation of youth in the mainstream agricultural economy while highlighting opportunities and possible steps that could be taken to improve the situation for better. Accordingly, the youth study report should be viewed within the context of South African Constitution, Department of Agriculture Policies, National Youth developmental Policies, UN, and AU-NEPAD-CAAP declarations on the active engagement of youth in policy making and planning decision processes.