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Africa holds close to sixty percent of the world's uncultivated arable land, yet the continent remains a net importer of food and the average Nigerian farmer is now over sixty years old. YINAGA, the Youth in Agriculture Africa Initiative, was founded to close that gap by reconnecting young people with the industry that can employ, feed, and enrich them.

In its first year, YINAGA organized the YINAGA Agrinnovation Summit at Federal University Dutse in Jigawa State, bringing together more than two hundred students alongside representatives from the Bank of Agriculture and the Jigawa State Government. The organization went on to run an Improved Seed Empowerment and Financial Inclusion Programme with Tecni Seeds and Alternative Bank in Dabi Local Government Area, reaching over one hundred farmers, and launched the YINAGA Outgrower Programme, which began cultivation across thirty hectares of farmland.

Building on these results, YINAGA is now scaling that model through the Food Beyond Africa Project and the Food Beyond Africa Conference, aiming to reach three hundred farming communities across fifteen Nigerian states, train at least fifteen thousand farmers, and create more than thirty five thousand jobs for young people across the agricultural value chain.