Agripreneurship development is a key tool for poverty reduction.
It has been proven effective for stimulating employment and economic growth in developing countries in Asia and Africa.
Agripreneurship boosts economic growth, enhances educational attainment and increases the rate of economic growth.
Creation of jobs and income; supply of products to the population; social insertion.
For example in Ukraine the economic situation in the countryside is very bad. There are many agroholdings which dont need any people, especially in crop growing. The population in the countryside diminishes every year and our government doesn't offer any ways of this situation. So people in the countryside are becoming poorer and poorer. General situation doesn't contibuite to appearing of new agri-entrepreneurs and creating new jobs in this field.
Irrespective of everything else, food is an essential requirement of every person all his/her life. Agri entrepreneurs offer the opportunity to create a more efficient production system, and thereby enhance the income of farmers and create better opportunities in rural areas.
Sorry, but I am unable to see a positive, linear or cause-effect relationship between a westernized job description (which this Agri-entrepreneur thing is) and socioeconomic improvements. Especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, socioeconomic developments point to a negative trend when it comes to income generation and employment in the agricultural sector, because the economic gains are distributed among elites and DO NOT TRICKLE DOWN to improve poverty reduction. Most subsistence farming practices and stable socioeconomic relationships have been destroyed in the wake of the post-colonization of many low-income countries. The term Agri-entrepreneurs is associated with the neo-liberal discourse surrounding the valorisation of natural resource such as soil, land and water and is aimed at improving economic efficiency of agricultural production. It seems an inappropriate solution in the age of climate change and massive ecological crises. In addition, I would like to point to what Vitalii Nitsenko answered: the agribusiness is not a sector to provide for sufficient income for the excluded!
Further more: you need to specify what you understand when you write about poverty reduction! Quantitativ changes in GDP? This is what your question implies at least. Anyway, such an understanding seems very much outdated!
I would be careful when talking about job generation in relation with poverty reduction - this is a much westernized notion about the idea of development and how societies can prosper!
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