Organization: Harambe Nigeria
Country:Nigeria
http://www.harambefarmland.com/
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Blog description:
Through The Farmland, young Nigerians can share pictures, support one another, pose questions to the larger community, share comments, insights, articles and opinion pieces. As they share information on their work and entrepreneurial prospects, they can become featured as AgriPreneurs or Sowers.In addition, school authorities, farmers and other Nigerians can
carve a niche on the Agri-Opps section and work to respectively educate, inform, and benefit the larger Nigerian community.
Businesspeople and policy makers can also use the website to share information about policy and market updates and opportunities for investment and capacity building while connecting with farmers, young people and rising entrepreneurs. In addition, Nigerian citizens -especially as consumers- can share, with the general public, their experiences and knowledge as these relate to agriculture, consumption and capacity-building.
The Farmland is about team work and idea exchange as well as open spaces for collective growth and empowerment. It is our hope that by bringing together youths, farmers, businessmen, school authorities, citizens and policy makers- to join in the bountiful harvest, we will lead Nigeria into its much-awaited agricultural revolution.
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Organization profile:
Harambe Nigeria is a non-profit organization dedicated to revolutionizing the way Nigerian youth engage with the agricultural sector by nurturing them into agricultural entrepreneurs and leaders. It is run by passionate young passionate Nigerians in Nigeria and the Diaspora. With the United Nations population division estimating that 62% of Nigeria’s population is below 24 years of age, it is critical that, as a country, Nigeria must continually implement sustainable and strategic ways of engaging and preparing its youth for leadership roles to support its economic development.
With the Nigerian economy seemingly becoming more reliant on the oil sector as the primary source of national income, the agricultural sector has suffered neglect in spite of the fact that about 70% of the population depend on it for their livelihood. Once a large exporter of food and agricultural products, Nigeria now imports food to meet the domestic demands of its predominantly young and rapidly growing population.
As a way to address these challenges, Harambe Nigeria was launched against the backdrop of the critical role agriculture must play in the sustainable economic development of Nigeria in the long-run and the opportunities this sector provides to tap into the idealism, creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of young and enterprising Nigerians – at home and in the Diaspora.
Mission:
To revolutionize the way Nigerian youth engage with the agricultural sector by nurturing them into agricultural entrepreneurs and leaders. We believe that the transformation of this comatose sector in its entirety is the key to rejuvenating it and thus diversifying and strengthening the Nigerian economy.
Vision:
To create a new cadre of young Nigerian professionals, entrepreneurs and leaders who can affect change along the entire agricultural value chain, starting from farming and going all the way up to agro policy.
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