Overview
The Education Pillar focuses on offering experiential learning opportunities for youth that promote climate-smart, indigenous, and nutrition-rich agri-food practices, and are rooted in community-based research and innovation. This pillar is also concerned with transforming current predominantly theory-based learning to adopt more experiential approaches to effectively equip youth with the skills and resources for creating new jobs. These include:
- The development of a new PhD program in Sustainable Agri-Food Systems that supports the training of 100 PhDs over 10 years, and
- The development of short courses that will directly engage and prepare about 2,050 youths over a ten-year period, to take up opportunities in agri-food systems.
Key Objectives
The key objectives of the SO1 are:
- Strengthen capacity of institutions to provide experiential training for youth to facilitate entry into the workforce or career advancement in nutrition & agri-food sectors;
- Increase opportunities for youth to participate in short-term experiential training to facilitate entry into the workforce or career advancement.
Target beneficiary partners include students and young people with interests in agriculture-related careers, agricultural value-chain practitioners with difficulty, potential practitioners, and general business operators with difficulty.