Charlie Young is a passionate, dedicated youth and the power behind Charlie Young Foundation based in Kenya, focused on providing and empowering smallholder farmers and youths with Agricultural information and trainings. Charlie works with small scale farmers and young people in Kenya on adopting sustainable agriculture practices so they can feed themselves with high nutritious food from the farms, make a living and lift themselves out of poverty.
Agriculture is an essential part of Kenya’s economy, directly contributing 33% of the total gross domestic product {GDP}, with 75% of Kenyans depending on the crops they grow and animals they keep for their livelihoods and survival. Therefore, Charlie Young with his diverse expertise in Agricultural industry provide farmers with advice on growing climate-resilient crops, accessing finance, farm mechanization, and market while building resilience to climate change with aim to help them find sustainable way to increase their productivity and incomes.
MISSION
“Cultivating ideas for growth” I envision a future where agriculture surges forward, cultivating sustainable solutions, uplifting communities and nurturing our precious planet.
OUR FOCUS IS MAKING AGRICULTURE ATTRACTIVE TO THE YOUTHS AND THE WORLD AT LARGE. THIS IS BY OUR COMBATING CREATIVITY IN FINDING SOLUTIONS TO DIFFERENT AGRICULTURAL PROBLEMS.
THE CHALLENGE
Climate change
Kenya being classified as arid or semi-arid, climate change is a significant threat to the lives and livelihoods of the people in the rural. Therefore, adopting to the climate is a vital goal for farmers to ensure they can withstand the impacts long-term.
Rural urban migration
Youths moving from the rural to go find white collar jobs and other professions in the cities is causing skill development gap in the agriculture sector. Only 10% of youths are in agricultural labour force out of 60% that constitute the total youth labour force, as a result this has reduced productivity and economic activities. Curbing rural urban migration among youths is essential to enable them develop their skills at the grassroots level.
Growing population
Increasing population as well as increasing family sizes has led to lad fragmentation hence decline in farm sizes. Therefore, creativity and innovations need to be applied to feed the whole population.
Ecosystem degradation
Effects of soil erosion, loss of soil organic matter, nutrient imbalance, waterlogging, loss of soil biodiversity etc. makes agricultural lands less productive therefore action needs to be taken to restore the situation.
OUR SOLUTIONS
Our focus is making Agriculture attractive to the youths and the world at large. This is by our combating creativity in finding sustainable solutions to different Agricultural problems.
OUR SERVICES
-Agri-Consultancy services; we help our farmers stay aware of fast-moving development in technology, science and agribusiness management as well as offering solutions to the Agri-related problems.
-Training services; we are skilled to empower both small, medium and large-scale farmers either online or on the farm, with modern smart climate agriculture techniques to improve on farm productivity.
-Agri-influencer Marketing; connecting brands with our online community with an engaged and large following. We are active on Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn, TikTok and YouTube.
PRODUCTS
Honey, branded as Young Sweetness Pure Honey.
Bee Venom.
Peanut butter, Branded as Young Smooth Peanut Butter
Chicken Eggs.
Pig meat and Breeders.
Farm Fruits and Vegetables.
