{"id":15588,"date":"2026-06-20T12:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.iita.org\/news-item\/dg-sanginga-calls-for-intensified-youth-engagement-in-agribusiness-at-future-of-food-forum\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T20:31:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T20:31:43","slug":"dg-sanginga-calls-for-intensified-youth-engagement-in-agribusiness-at-future-of-food-forum","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/iita.org\/fr\/news-item\/dg-sanginga-calls-for-intensified-youth-engagement-in-agribusiness-at-future-of-food-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"DG Sanginga calls for intensified youth engagement in agribusiness at \u201cFuture of Food Forum\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 250 professionals from six countries and 19 states attended the University of Florida\u2019s \u201cFuture of Food Forum\u201d, sponsored by the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. The forum comprised farmers, researchers, chefs, aquaculturists, students, and academics. One-third of the registered audience were from the private sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The forum had five panels, each comprising recognized experts from various fields with many years of experience. They shared their perceptions of the future of food up till 2050.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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IITA Director-General,\u00a0Dr Nteranya Sanginga<\/a>, was on the \u201cFood from the land\u201d panel with four other experts in agricultural research. Being the only African on the panel, he discussed how new agricultural challenges of Africa can be solved, as well as his role of supporting agribusiness entrepreneurs for providing food solutions and creating employment for youth in Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DG Sanginga noted two challenges of African agriculture: (i) Africa is importing almost 35 billion dollars\u2019 worth of food, which can be produced locally. If such importation persists, by 2025, Africa\u2019s food importation would have risen to 110 billion dollars; (ii) the farming community of Africa is old. The average age of farmers in Africa is 63, because young people take no interest in farming despite an unemployment rate of 60%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He narrated cases of youth unemployment in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria, and IITA\u2019s intervention to create employment through the\u00a0IITA Youth Agripreneur<\/a>s (IYA) model. He said, \u201cThrough this model, over 7000 youth have been trained in agribusinesses, and about 70% of them have become self-employed. Agriculture ought to be a business in Africa as much as it is in the US\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Half of the world\u2019s population is on the wrong side of nutrition; 1.9 billion people are overweight, 820 million people are hungry, one-third of all food produced for human consumption gets lost, and there\u2019ll be more than two and a half billion more mouths to feed in the next 40 years. The world must transform its food production systems to cater to people\u2019s changing tastes and health requirements\/challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Anderson, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems, said \u201cWe need a new kind of agriculture. Our work must address who produces food, where it is produced, and how it is produced.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of the recommended solutions include getting governments to support agriculture, protect farmlands, and encourage farmers to use new techniques that scientists discover. Participants were charged to keep on providing innovative solutions for a healthy and productive world.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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