“One sector that holds enormous potential for decent employment opportunities is aquatic food systems, which include aquaculture, capture fisheries and related supply chains. Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food-producing sectors in the world, yet it currently employs just a fraction of young people.
In Nigeria, for example, less than 2% of youth who work in agri-food are involved in aquaculture or capture fisheries.” – GFAR
By Indika Arulingam, Research Officer, International Water Management Institute and Shakuntala Thilsted, Global Lead for Nutrition and Public Health, WorldFish
Governments knew that youth unemployment was high before the COVID-19 pandemic, but what they failed to realize was how vulnerable even those with jobs were.
Globally, youth employment fell by almost9%in 2020 compared with 3.7% for adults.
And nowhere is the jobs gap more urgent than in Africa, where the median age is roughly 19 years old – half the equivalent in Europe at 42.5 years. Given thatmore than halfof the continent’s population is expected to be under the age of 25 by 2050, creating sustainable livelihoods is a priority.
Figures show that up to80%of young Africans find work in the food sector but ascompetition for jobs grows amid scarce and unevenly distributed resources and additional pressures, the…
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