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Empowering Disadvantaged Youth Through Agricultural Value Chains

Winrock International, a nonprofit organization, focuses on empowering disadvantaged communities in the U.S. and worldwide by enhancing economic opportunities and sustainable resource management. The organization emphasizes agricultural development, promoting entrepreneurial skills, and capacity building. It aims to improve income, household resilience, and gender equity among marginalized youth, particularly in remote rural areas. By providing training in agricultural production and entrepreneurial literacy, Winrock enhances market linkages, creating sustainable, win-win relationships among producers, distributors, and consumers.

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Empowering Disadvantaged Youth Through Agricultural Value Chains

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  1. Winrock International Putting Ideas to Work

  2. Winrock International is a nonprofitorganization that works with people in the United States and around the worldto empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources.

  3. A Global Presence Current as of 2010

  4. Winrock Approach to Increased Economic Opportunities • Capacity Building for Organizations and Individuals • Enterprise and Agricultural Development • Enhance Markets and Develop Products • Entrepreneurial Skills Development • Strategies on Investment, Trade and Finance • Alternative Energy & Natural Resource Management • Improved Production Technologies & Value-added processing

  5. Value Chain General Definition • Strengthen Mutually Beneficial Linkages Producers - Distributors – Processors -Wholesalers/Retailers • Market Opportunities • Trust

  6. Value Chain - Key Concepts • Win-Win Relationships • Upgrading • Innovation • Added Value

  7. Value Chain Development Positive or Desired Change • Income & Employment Generation • Economic Growth • Poverty Reduction • Environmental Performance • Gender Equity

  8. Youth in the Agriculture Value Chain Youth Enterprise Development

  9. The Purpose of This Presentation • Sharing Experiences • Economic Opportunities using Agriculture Value Chains • Rural Areas

  10. GOALS Increase or Improve: • Income • Household Resiliency • Gender Equity • Reduce Outmigration

  11. Target Population Marginalized youth: • Vulnerable and disadvantaged youth • Women • Dalits • 16 – 30 years • Ethnic, linguistic and religious • Conflict affected Remote rural areas

  12. Approach • Integrated, entrepreneurial literacy • Agriculture skills development • Entrepreneurial training for off farm employment

  13. 1. Entrepreneurial Literacy • 10 month class • Primarily women • Integrated approach literacy, numeracy, how to use government services, HIV/Aids awareness, how to start a business, revenues, profit, loss, how to access credit • Tied to income generation

  14. 1. Entrepreneurial Literacy • More than 30,000 youth completed training • 70% went on to technical skills development-mostly were in agriculture • Huge demand because people saw the benefits

  15. 2. Agriculture Production

  16. 2.Agriculture Production • Market Driven • Aggregate farmers • Technical training in high-value commodity production • Introduced technologies • Linkages: producers-input suppliers-markets

  17. 3. Rural Employment • Identified points along value chain • Provided entrepreneurial training for • Agro-vets • Local Service Providers • Traders • Vendors • Water harvesters

  18. Strengthened VC and Employment Opportunities • Simultaneously built value chain and linked farmers, traders • Oriented farmers toward markets • Created demand for inputs

  19. Strengthen Delivery Systems using demand driven commercial approach • Establish system of private sector input suppliers and extension agents • Community-managed collection centers • Create and strengthen linkages along the VC to access market • Partnerships with local government

  20. Establish Local Collection

  21. …that feed into large collection centers Kaprokot, Salyan empty and on market day Kapurkot, Salyan District collects vegetables twice a week that go to Butwal, Nepalgunj, Kathmandu

  22. Input suppliers crucial for vulnerable small holders • Enterprises improve farmers’ access to quality inputs and extension agriculture advice; • Eliminates culture of ‘handouts’ and dependency; • Creates jobs along the value chain Agro-vets provide knowledge and linkages to producers through trained Local Service Providers

  23. Private Sector Extension Services Local Service Providers are field-based providing mobile trainings and extension services to remote and vulnerable smallholders

  24. Local Service Providers

  25. Major Accomplishments: • Established agriculture value chains • Improved the lives and food security of over 54,000 disadvantaged including 12,500 remote households • Increased income on average by 236% • Strong coordination with GoN • Network of Local Service Providers • Develop Linkages • Farmers • Input suppliers • Output traders

  26. Selected Lessons Learned Linking producers to input suppliers and output markets Market driven approach is sustainable Local Service Providers - effective link Government involvement and stakeholder meetings insure sustainability Improved production improves family nutrition Entrepreneurial literacy linked to AG/VC training

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