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Ethiopia Youth Story - Horticulture Project

Interview with Ayshayusuf Seid and Jawar Seid, beneficiaries of the Horticulture Project , funded by the Italian Development Cooperation and implemented by FAO in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, in order to promote alternatives to migration for Ethiopian rural youth.

Find out more about the project on Youth mobility, food security and rural poverty reduction in Ethiopia and Tunisia:

http://www.fao.org/rural-employment/work-areas/migration/rym-project/en/

Duration 8m7s

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Video Type Video News Release (VNR)

Date 06/01/2017 2:51 PM

File size 767.35 MB

Unique ID UF2T5R

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Shotlist YOUTH STORY PACKAGE: HORTICULTURE PROJECT

(AYSHAYUSUF SEID and JAWAR SEID)

AMHARA REGION, Ethiopia

Language: Amharic

Shot: May 2017

Interview #1: Ayshayusuf Seid

00:02 - 00:04: My name is Ayshayusuf Seid.

00:06 - 00:08: I am married and have two children.

00:08 - 00:10: I am 35 years old.

00:12 - 00:17: My family relied on the meagre income from my husband’s casual labor.

00:17 - 00:20: I saw many young people who migrated send money back home and support their families.

00:22 - 00:39: I migrated to get employment and income to support myself and my family.

00:41 - 00:48: I changed my mind because life was very difficult there. I was even concerned about my own safety for life.

00:50 - 1:01: I will never migrate again…no one is like own country…when I was in migration I missed my family and parents.

1:03 - 1:14: Our vegetable gardening is doing well. We expect to harvest and sell for 70 – 80 000 Birr.

1:17 - 1:20: We grow mungebean, onion, and cabbage.

1:20 - 1:26: This will gradually improve our means of income and our lives.

1:28 - 1:34: Unless the young people go through the risks and the challenges of migration, they don’t want to believe.

1:37 - 1:43: I myself returned empty hand, I went through painful situations.

1:45 - 1:49: I migrated because of poverty and lack of opportunities at home.

1:51 - 2:00: I am happy to be in my country now. I can work and improve my life here.

2:02 - 2:08: We can support each other during difficult times with families. I want to live here.

Interview #2:

2:12 - 2:29: My name is Jawar Seid. I am 25 years old. I am a chair person of an organized youth

group. We work on vegetable gardening.

2:32 - 2:38: I enrolled as a member of the group to be employed and get income and become economically self-reliant.

2:41 - 3:06: On our garden…yes, we grow tomato, headed cabbage and red onion. For next season, we will plant mung bean.

3:08 - 3:20: We will create market link with local demand. We expect to sell our vegetable produces to local college and university.

3:22 - 3:44: My parents were very happy when I returned from regions. Obviously they don’t want to lose me. We all know that migration has lots of risks in the desert and in the Sea. It is clear that

unemployment drives young people to take migration as an option.

3:47 - 4:02: The difference with this one is…this one is a full-time job which we do throughout the year. It is our own job. We are committed and work in motivation.

4:04 - 4:55: Working on farm is a labor intensive job. We have fewer female members in our group as the work needs strong physical fitness – may be that is why they are fewer in number. It is the nature of the job, not a lack of interest. One is inspired by another. We believe these fewer young women members will inspire other local women to join the group. ! !

4:58 - 5:03: If young people did not have this option, they would migrate. I would the same thing.

5:05 - 5:16: If the support expands and young people have options, I think distress migration will end in this country.

B-Roll

5:18

(Horticulture Project with Youth Group of Jawar Seid)

6:27

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(Jawar Seid with his Family)

7:08

B-Roll

(Horticulture Project with Youth Group of Ayshayusuf Seid)

Script Each year, rural areas lose a promising share of their workforce, as youth leave their homes and migrate to cities or move abroad in search of a better future. The risks, unknown. The distress induced by poverty and a lack of employment opportunities push many youth around the world to search for jobs elsewhere. By addressing the links between distress migration and rural development, FAO is making a difference in Ethiopia. A project on youth mobility, food security and rural poverty reduction - in collaboration with the government and rural stakeholders - is striving to reduce the number of people migrating from rural areas out of distress.

Total Number of Migrants: 12,115,263

National Youth Out Migration Rate: 15%

With funding from the Italian Development Cooperation, the project was launched in 2015 to provide motivated youth in regions of high distress migration with profitable alternatives. The aim is to promote innovative pathways for youth employment and entrepreneurship in rural areas -and the impact is already being felt.

Over 350 youth in Ethiopia have now received the necessary training and equipment to launch a local agricultural activity. Animal fattening, sheep and goat rearing, dairy, poultry and egg production, beekeeping, as well as horticulture and fishing, are amongst the initiatives aimed at turning potential migrants into successful entrepreneurs. The pilot initiatives involve 152 youth in 11 groups in the Amhara region and 200 youth in 20 groups in the Oromia region.

FAO also works with the Government to ensure safe mobility, by increasing incentives for regular and orderly migration.

Creating rural employment opportunities is benefitting both participants and their families. By promoting agricultural enterprises in migration-prone areas, young entrepreneurs are given the choice to remain in their communities.

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