Develop an Integrated Farming Project, home-based (online volunteer), Cameroon

Develop an Integrated Farming Project

Organisation of African Youth - Cameroon

TASK

The volunteers will be helping us develop an integrated farm project. The project will seek to increase crop production and livestock production while educating youths on the benefit.

The volunteers will be expected to finalise the project by September and all necessary inputs from the community will be provided by the our organization. we will exchange emails with the volunteers to provide the best inputs from the community as well as technical reports

Number of volunteers: 3

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

This project will start an integrated farm and will train youths to start small integrated farms. This project aims at putting youths as actors in food security.

OBJECTIVE

The project will seek to promote entrepreneurship of youths through agriculture because
-it uses low external inputs in farming
-increased production and productivity of crops and livestock.
-It makes maximum use of smaller household
farm size
-Income and food security especially for the poorcan be improved
-Everybody can practice it
-It is environmentally friendly
-It is sustainable
-It sequestrates carbon in the soil, thus
becoming a solution to global warming

Region or country

Cameroon

Development topic

Food and agriculture
Youth

REQUIREMENTS

Agronomist or related knowledge will be an advantage

Areas of expertise

Agriculture, forestry and fishery

Languages

English

Hours per week

6-10

Duration in weeks

5

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