Date of Conferral

2022

Degree

Ph.D.

School

Human Services

Advisor

Nathan R. Moran

Abstract

Youth unemployment is a concern in the developing world due to lack of industries to absorb youth. This gemeric qualitative study involved exploring Nigerian graduates of entrepreneurship training in agriculture and their empowerment experiences involving pursuing a related career. The study centered on elimination of poverty from an interdisciplinary perspective. The critical social theory and resilience theory were used as conceptual frameworks. The study included 10 trainee interviews via convenience sampling who worked on an agricultural farm and involved obtaining open-ended data concerning their experiences. Data analysis in the study involved a manual process and Microsoft word was used for its imputation. Interviews used in the study generated five themes involving feelings of participants : adopting agricultural practice as a business necessity for the non-availability of white-collar jobs, involvement in farm training and farming does not mean cultivating or farming vast acres of land techniques and practices, stakeholders’ experiences could provide tangible outcomes, human and social service practices are not used but desirable, and the success of youth involvement in agribusiness was not only about income generation. This study gives human and social services practitioners in Nigeria information to comprehend their activities to provide advocacy counseling, social action, and social justice. The social change inference offers scholars with a greater understanding of human services administrators and educators in the provision of skill identification and competency-building designs in Nigeria to enact social change involving university graduates with a ripple effect on community development.

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