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How to integrate youth in horticulture value chains
Horticulture for Development Professional Series Questions? Email horticulture@ucdavis.edu
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Erin McGuire, Associate Director
How to integrate youth in horticulture value chains Horticulture - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
How to integrate youth in horticulture value chains Horticulture - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
How to integrate youth in horticulture value chains Horticulture for Development Professional Series Questions? Email horticulture@ucdavis.edu 1 Erin McGuire, Associate Director 2 Why Horticulture? 3 Enriching Diets 4 5 146k 146kg/per
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Why Horticulture?
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Enriching Diets
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146k 146kg/per cap capita/year Re Reco commended i intak ake b by FAO
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“This is where the money is.”
- Melanie Chipungu
Leader MitengoWomen’s group Lusaka, Zambia
Increasing Incomes
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More vulnerable populations are heavily engaged in horticulture crop production and marketing
Moving power
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Perishability Appropriate technology Local capacity and connection to market Access to good agriculture information and inputs
- Production
- Postharvest
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Nutritional benefits of diet diversification High value crops – income generation and income
diversification
Entrepreneurial opportunity throughout value chain
for middle-market actors
- Women and youth are heavily engaged in horticulture crop
production and marketing
Resiliency - crop diversification and rapid crop cycles
- Intensive farming on small plots possible
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