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To farm or not to farm? That’s NOT the question
February 4, 2020 / FAC blog
 It is often said that young, rural Africans aren’t interested in farming. Rather, they want to relocate to urban areas where there is a wider array of social, educational and employment opportunities. The suggestion is that widespread migration from rural

Tags: Côte d’Ivoire, employment, Ethiopia, migration, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, youth

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