YEAN is a Youth Led Private Agriculture enterprise that provides extension and advisory services to individual farmers, farmers’ organizations and contracts to design and implement innovative youth led Agriculture programs. YEAN strives to facilitate and optimize the engagement of Youth in Agriculture and Food System. YEAN work towards contributing to the SDG Goal 2: Ending hunger, achieving food security, improving nutrition and promoting sustainable agriculture. YEAN core business in the next 5 years (YEAN Vision 2025) is to continue as a private youth led enterprise that capacitate producers to make informed decisions and adopt agricultural technology and innovations which increase, diversify, specialize, and intensify agricultural production. Areas of intervention
YEAN activities are channeled in six interventions:
● Strengthening the capacity of farmers in value chain specific extension and advisory services
● Promoting youth led Agriculture models
● Youth inclusion in Agriculture Extension Services and programs
● Youth led agriculture outreach for tailored and demand driven extension and advisory services
● Agribusiness Innovation and Incubation Program
YEAN today
- Seven years of serving farmers through private extension and advisory service provision
- Developing Models of Engaging youth in Agriculture and food system
- Leading youth led private agriculture extension and advisory services provider in Rwanda ( to individual farmers, farmers’ organizations and contracts to design and implement innovative youth led programs in extension and advisory sector)
- 31,000 active members on YEAN Farmer Platform
- 3500 farmers on 34 well moderated YEAN WhatsApp groups and 27 Commodity specific platform with 3636 members in total
- 28000 members of YEAN Facebook Farmer Platform
- 8000+ followers on Twitter
- 60 Extension agents in 30 Districts/5 Province in Rwanda
Areas of Partnership
1. Commodity Specific Capacity Strengthening
3. Youth Engagement in Agriculture and food System
4. Coordination/ Implementation
6. Agribusiness Innovation and Incubation Program
Partners
YEAN’s key partner organizations are the Ministry of Agriculture (MINAGRI) through a five years MoU, the University of Laic Adventist of Kigali (UNILAK), Access Agriculture, Microsave Consulting, Mastercard Foundation, Vitagora, KickStart International and Young Professional for Agriculture Network (YPARD)
