Kenya Youth in Forestry Conference 2023
Event 2023-03-15 - 2023-03-15 - University of Nairobi Towers
While Vision 2030 had foreseen Kenya realizing 10% tree cover by 2030, a presidential directive brought the target forward to 2022. Through collaboration among stakeholders the forest sector, the target was surpassed in June 2022.
Following this success, the Kenya government in collaboration with stakeholders revised the tree cover goal to 30% by 2050. This development presents great opportunity for the youth to participate in sustainable forest conservation while improving their economic base, a reality at a time when the youth form the largest segment of the Kenyan population and face the worst challenge of unemployment.By And Large, This Disconnect Can Be Attributed To:
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- Forestry sector working in isolation
- Lack of access to adequate skills, knowledge & information on tree growing & value chains
- Poor socio-cultural orientation towards forestry technologies &innovation
- Limited access to land, lack of capital and intermittent financial support.
- Poor culture of entrepreneurship amongst the youth