{"id":193047,"date":"2025-03-07T18:32:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-needs-more-young-farmers-but-does-climate-change-put-them-off-study-shows-surprising-results\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T18:32:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:32:22","slug":"ghana-needs-more-young-farmers-but-does-climate-change-put-them-off-study-shows-surprising-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-needs-more-young-farmers-but-does-climate-change-put-them-off-study-shows-surprising-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Needs More Young Farmers, but Does Climate Change Put Them Off? Study Shows Surprising Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Ghana has a high youth unemployment rate of <a href=\"https:\/\/statsghana.gov.gh\/gssmain\/fileUpload\/pressrelease\/2023_Quarter_Labour_Statistics_Bulletin_full_report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">up to 13.9%<\/a>. For those young Ghanaians who do have jobs, <a href=\"https:\/\/documents1.worldbank.org\/curated\/en\/658821597419558922\/pdf\/Youth-Employment-Programs-in-Ghana-Options-for-Effective-Policy-Making-and-Implementation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 50% are underemployed<\/a> &#8211; working in jobs that are low paid or which don&#8217;t allow them to use all their skills or education.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\">The government of Ghana sees agriculture as a sector where young people have an opportunity to be working. The Ministry of Food and Agriculture&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/mofa.gov.gh\/site\/programmes\/youth-in-agriculture#:%7E:text=The%20Youth%20in%20Agriculture%20Programme%20(YIAP)%20is%20a%20Government%20of,as%20a%20life%20time%20vocation.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">youth in agriculture policy<\/a>, and government programmes like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/23311886.2024.2328883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">planting for food and jobs<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mofa.gov.gh\/site\/programmes\/pfj\/70-pfj\/pfj-modules\/328-rearing-for-food-and-jobs-rfj#:%7E:text=The%20objective%20of%20the%20RFJ,actors%20and%20the%20national%20economy.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">rearing livestock for food and&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070007.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana has a high youth unemployment rate of up to 13.9%. For those young Ghanaians who do have jobs, more than 50% are underemployed &#8211; working in jobs that are low paid or which don&#8217;t allow them to use all their skills or education. The government of Ghana sees agriculture as a sector where young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":193048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7796,6239,3030,4508,4509,257,7786,6407,7779,254,6056,33153,7720],"class_list":["post-193047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-change","tag-climate","tag-farmers","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-put","tag-results","tag-shows","tag-south-africa-today","tag-study","tag-surprising","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}