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Linking Youth Empowerment with Agricultural Production and Food Security

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Youth:

The most important sector of any society is constituted by youth. The main source of manpower for socioeconomic development of a country is youth. The youth also play a role as a channel for the transmission of culture. The accurate definition of the youth is difficult. Throughout the last few decades of the twentieth century, a consensus definition of youth can’t be found. Friedman (1971) defines youth as a group of human beings who have reached the age of puberty but haven’t yet acquired the full rights and duties of life. In succeeding years, defining youth as an age group has found more supporters than other definition. However, the definition of youth by age varies (Leavy and Smith 2010), in some countries ranges from 12 to 35 years, yet in other countries as young as 8 years to beyond 35 years. United Nations (UN) defines youth as a group of people between 15 and 24 years, while African Union extends from 15 to 35 years. In addition to age, other defining...

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey

    Orhan Özçatalbaş

  2. Department of Economics and Business Management, UVAS Business School, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan

    Muhammad Imran

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Correspondence to Orhan Özçatalbaş .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

    Walter Leal Filho

  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Anabela Marisa Azul

  3. Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, The University of Passo Fundo, Passo Fundo, Brazil

    Luciana Brandli

  4. Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Pinar Gökçin Özuyar

  5. International Centre for Thriving, University of Chester, Chester, UK

    Tony Wall

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  1. Dept. of Agricultural Management, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Rasht, Guilan, Iran

    Mohammad Sadegh Allahyari

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Özçatalbaş, O., Imran, M. (2020). Linking Youth Empowerment with Agricultural Production and Food Security. In: Leal Filho, W., Azul, A.M., Brandli, L., Özuyar, P.G., Wall, T. (eds) Zero Hunger. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95675-6_56

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