Impact Factor (2025): 6.9
DOI Prefix: 10.47001/IRJIET
The main
objective of this study was to assess the implication of youth unemployment and
conflict on food security and agricultural development. The specific objectives
include; to identify the determinants of youth unemployment and conflict,
examine the implication of youth unemployment and conflict on food security and
agricultural development and to identify the strategies put in place to reduce
youth unemployment. The identified determinants of youth unemployment and the
resulting conflict include; low economic growth rate, poor implementation and
adoption of untimely policy measures, sociological and psychological attitude
towards vocational studies, neglect of agricultural sector, poor enabling
environment, rural urban migration, high population of youths and inadequate
power supply. The implications of youth unemployment and conflict on food
security and agricultural development include; poverty, food insecurity, high
food importation bill, waste of human resource and loss of lives and
properties. Programmes across the country to promote and facilitate
entrepreneurship among others were some of the strategies put in place by
government to reduce youth’s unemployment. The study therefore recommends that
the current education curriculum be revised or enhanced to meet the needs of
the learners and the labour market, diversification of the economy especially
towards Agriculture should be facilitated and that rural infrastructure should
be provided to reduce rural-urban migration.
Country : Nigeria
IRJIET, Volume 7, Issue 9, September 2023 pp. 83-88