Around the
world, an estimated 130 million children are out of school and about 160 million
children are undernourished
The basic education children get does not provide them with
needed life skills and is poorly adapted to their needs and those of local
communities
Youths often have a negative attitude towards agriculture
and rural life and are poorly prepared to take on farming in a productive and
sustainable way – yet a large majority of them end up as farmers and petty
traders of agricultural
products
