Kenyan Farmers Bet On Diversification To Beat Covid-19
By Soko Directory Team / Published February 10, 2021 | 1:23 pm KEY POINTS
Youth (18-34 years) account for 29 percent of Kenya’s population and are significant to Kenya’s growth and transformation agenda.
Throughout 2020 and the myriad of challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, supporting and working with young agribusiness entrepreneurs has been particularly pertinent.
According to the Kenya Agribusiness Strategy (2017-2021), youth (18-34 years) account for 29 percent of Kenya’s population and are significant to Kenya’s growth and transformation agenda.
However,
70-80% of entrepreneurs fail within their first two years of business. With the disruption of agricultural value chains since the onset of the pandemic, USIU-A received additional funding from IDRC to better understand the factors that allow young people to be more resilient and to keep their agribusinesses afloat.