Accelerating youth-led digital entrepreneurship in agriculture

Abstract

Young people have the potential to generate innovations that will transform the productivity and resilience of agriculture in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific (ACP). For over five years, CTA has been promoting and supporting digital entrepreneurship among tech-savvy youth to improve their livelihoods, their communities, and contribute to the ACP’s agricultrual transformation.
CTA’s approach to facilitating digital entrepreneurship among young people in ACP regions, includes the identification of promising young
entrepreneurs; peer-to-peer learning;
networking and business-to-business
(B2B) matchmaking; mentorship and
capacity development; and piloting
business models for proof of concept
and impact assessment.