GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES

Repositioning Agriculture to End Youth Migration in Africa

Sep 21, 2018 | 09:00 GMT

Joseph Kamanga, a farmer in Malawi, surveys the damage that drought has inflicted on his corn crops.
Malawian farmer Joseph Kamanga walks through his maize field destroyed by dry spells at Lunzu in Blantyre, Southern Malawi on February 14, 2018. - A total of eighteen districts in Malawi have been affected by dry spells and attacks by fall armyworms. According to the Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the United Nation's Foogd and Agriculture Organization (FAO) country of fice, the country will lose about 40 percent (some 210,740 metric tons), of the maize produced in the districts affected by drought, and approximately 10 percent (about 73,201 metric tonnes) due to fall armyworms. (Photo by Amos Gumulira / AFP) (Photo credit should read AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP/Getty Images)

(AMOS GUMULIRA/AFP/Getty Images)

Farming could offer young people in rural parts of the continent a vital economic opportunity that could help curb migration, if only governments would invest in the sector....

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