8 October 2020, Kiambu County, Kenya - 25-year-old Hilda Njeri Njuguna, a member of FAO trained group of youth Limuru Central Agribusiness feeds with milk her pigs at a farm in Kiambu, Kiambu County, Kenya on October 8, 2020.
FAO Kenya has designed the project "Rural Youth
Migration, Social Protection & Local Value Chain Development" to address the root causes of rural youth out-migration by creating more and improved employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in agri-business. The project, which is being implemented in Kiambu County, focuses on creating alternatives to migration for youth by strengthening their entrepreneurial skills and promoting adopting of good agricultural practices for increased productivity and profitability; while also harnessing the potential of migration and social protection for value chains and agriculture development through remittances and productive investments in
agriculture.