IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

IIARD International Journal of Economics and Business Management (IJEBM )

E-ISSN 2489-0065
P-ISSN 2695-186X
VOL. 3 NO. 3 2017

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Agropreneur Development: A Framework for Sustainable Food Security and Rural Livelihood

Owoade, Olufemi Adeyemi

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Abstract

Increasing population of hungry and malnourished people, and expected doubling of worldwide demand for food by 2050 as population, incomes, and consumption of animal products grow, necessitate need to support a paradigm shift that focuses energy increasingly on promoting agropreneurs. As agropreneurs through adoption of innovation and assumption of risk of uncertainty improve productivity, transform traditional indigenous agriculture industry into a modern enterprise, and strongly impacts food security, quality of life, economic growth, and political stability. To this effect, this paper posited that bolstering food security and sustainability is not just a matter of helping existing rural small-holder farmers but also recruitment of innovative new ones. The paper identified challenges to agropreneurs development to include restricted market access, poor management practices, low entrepreneurial skills, poor infrastructural facilities, non access to information, land, money and capital market etc. Therefore, to promote agropreneurs development the paper recommended creation of an enabling agribusiness environment, adoption of consistent and enduring government protection policies and risk sharing strategies, mentoring and establishment of agricultural parks and incubation centers

keywords:

agropreneur, food security, emergence, innovation, sustainability

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