Training and integration of young people in the agricultural trades

In Burkina Faso, the issue of training and integration of young people in agricultural occupations is at the crossroads of three key issues: youth employment, agricultural succession, and improving agricultural performance. However, history has shown that very few young people leaving training centers enter the agricultural sector. The present research, which is based on the training center in the town of Silly, confirms this observation and identifies three explanatory factors: recruitment that does not take into account the vocation of young people, a training system that is not very open to the socio-professional context, old teaching methods that are not very focused on the integration capacities of young people, and the low level of responsibility of young people and their families in the integration process. Our engineering offer places young people at the heart of the system. It is a question of co-constructing with the actors: a recruitment mechanism that takes into account the vocation of the young people, pedagogical approaches that develop the autonomy and the power to act of the young people and opens them to the socio-professional world, an insertion approach that gives responsibility to the young people and their families.