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Agribusiness McNamara, Paul E. Ellison, Brenna Crost, Benjamin Highfill, Ryan Joseph 2017-09-29T17:45:41Z 2017-09-29T17:45:41Z 2020-03-03T10:15:38Z 2017-06-16 2017-08 This thesis examines the effects of agri-business entrepreneurship training on the business skills, entrepreneurial propensity, and expected wages of youth in rural Malawi. Historically, the role of youth in agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa has been severely limited due to a variety of political, social, and economic factors. In general, youth have limited access to land, capital, political influence, and agricultural inputs, which are often controlled by governments, private industry, or village elders. This project implemented a learning program in the East Lilongwe district testing the effects of a 10 week agricultural entrepreneurship course that attempted to equip youth with the skills necessary to start a low cost business. Participants were selected in groups at the village level, and by completion of the course expected to have formed a semi-formal business plan. Increasing rural youth’s entrepreneurial knowledge and expectations about the viability and wages of agricultural employment will be a crucial factor in incentivizing extension systems to adopt sustainable training practices as a means of advisory service. Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-08-01 The student, Ryan Highfill, accepted the attached license on 2017-06-15 at 10:01. The student, Ryan Highfill, submitted this Thesis for approval on 2017-06-15 at 10:04. This Thesis was approved for publication on 2017-06-16 at 12:51. DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11225 on 2017-09-29 at 10:45:52 Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-29T17:45:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 HIGHFILL-THESIS-2017.pdf: 2338778 bytes, checksum: f9b666aec9b7e41f3219246e7c11556f (MD5) LICENSE.txt: 4210 bytes, checksum: 4c84dbf389e4b8001407376c47cd069c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-16 Embargo set by: Colleen Fallaw for item 103494 Lift date: 2019-09-29T17:48:06Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 103494 Lift date: 2020-03-02T19:56:41Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 103494 Lift date: 2020-03-02T19:59:52Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 103494 Lift date: 2020-03-02T20:02:46Z Reason: Author requested U of Illinois access only (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system U of I Only Restriction Lifted for Item 103494 on 2020-03-03T10:15:38Z. application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2142/98168 eng Copyright 2017 Ryan Highfill Extension Malawi Building capacity of rural youth and extension workers in agriculture as a business: evidence from a field experiment in Malawi text text Agr & Consumer Economics Agricultural & Applied Econ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thesis M.S.