Kola Masha: How farming could employ Africa's young workforce -- and help build peace
콜라 마샤(Kola Masha): 어떻게 농업이 아프리카 청년들에게 일자리를 제공하고, 평화를 가져올 수 있을까요?
Kola Masha is the founder of Babban Gona, the first for-profit social enterprise in history to be awarded the prestigious Skoll Award, due to its financial sustainability and highly scalable impact. The organization is part-owned by the farmers they serve. Full bio
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at the University of Sussex
in armed conflict.
추이를 연구했습니다.
아프리카에 살고 있습니다.
이른 아침부터
of getting a coveted job
설렘에 가득 차 있었습니다.
died that day, applying for a job,
그날 일자리를 구하러 갔다가 죽었습니다.
for a few thousand open positions.
수만 명이 몰렸기 때문입니다.
2천만 명의 청년이 유입됐습니다.
have entered the Nigerian workforce alone.
is under the age of 18.
18세 이하입니다.
in the next 20 years.
생산인구로 유입되는 것이죠.
entering the workforce
어떤 일이 벌어질까요?
in northern Nigeria,
한 작은 마을로 갔습니다.
most recently hit
끔찍한 폭격사태,
brutal bombings and searing poverty,
고통받는 곳이었는데
to halt the spread of this insecurity,
경제적 장치가 있다면
as a job-creation engine?
활용할 수 있다면 어떨까?
in countries like Thailand,
태국과 같은 나라에서 찾아볼 수 있습니다.
the same economic challenges as us.
경제적 어려움을 겪은 나라죠.
two million cars a year --
생산하는 나라가 됐습니다.
profitable small farmers,
소규모 자작농이며
of less than one percent.
the productivity of its small farmers,
생산성을 높이는 데 주력했습니다.
to start to dominate
확신을 가지고 말이죠.
they attracted investment
like starch from cassava.
수출하기 시작한 겁니다.
with investment in education,
to even higher-value manufacturing.
확장할 수 있었던 것이죠.
and follow a path similar to Thailand,
태국과 같은 사례를 만들려면
young farmers on farming.
설득해야 했습니다.
한 청년이 있었는데,
discussion, we'll call "Saminu,"
부르겠습니다.
that this would not be easy.
알려준 청년이었죠.
in northern Nigeria.
한 아름다운 마을에서 자랐는데
of playing for hours with his friends,
들려주었습니다.
the beautiful rock formations
암석지대로 이루어져 있는데
뛰놀곤 했다고 합니다.
he would leave.
work so hard as farmers,
아무리 열심히 일해도
남는 게 없었다고 합니다.
to pair with their hard work
농기구를 살만한 여력이 되지 않습니다.
most of it at fire-sale prices,
이마저도 헐값에 팔아야 하죠.
they could get 50 percent more.
50% 더 받을 수 있는데 말이에요.
that life was not easy.
more patches than tires,
would be ripped away from him,
잃을까봐 말이에요.
who were not so lucky --
once they'd lost their motorcycles,
out to wreak vengeance
복수를 하기 시작하는 겁니다.
had turned its back on them.
사회를 향해 말이죠.
they joined insurgent groups,
이런 사람들이 결국 반란세력에 가담하고,
in bombings and kidnappings.
도주 운전사 역할을 한다고 합니다.
만들어야 합니다.
on their small farms,
to make a life for themselves;
목돈을 벌 수 있다는
has grassroot-level leadership,
운영된다는 점을 고려해
and investment to scale
"great farm" in Hausa.
하우사어로 "위대한 농장"이라고 합니다.
참담한 실패였습니다.
100명 정도만이 동참했죠.
of our partners,
전폭적인 지지를 바탕으로
농부들을 돕고 있는데
and triple their net income
2배 더 늘었으며,
to start a goat-rearing business,
염소 3마리를 사주었고,
두 대를 살 수 있게 되었죠.
문구가 달린 오토바이를요.
are entering the African workforce,
아프리카 노동시장에 진출할 겁니다.
having opportunities in agriculture.
through models similar to ours,
이들을 농업에 정착시키려면
a year in financing.
자금이 필요합니다.
그다지 큰 액수가 아닙니다.
it is a small number --
in the world today,
agricultural development programs.
다르게 접근할 수 있었던 것입니다.
that our model works,
저희의 방식이 통한다는 것을 보여주었고
수익성이 높다는 걸 증명하면서
in small farmers in Africa.
투자를 하지 않는 사람들이죠.
of young men across Africa,
꿈 많은 청년들은
할 수 있을 겁니다.
만들 수 있습니다.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kola Masha - Agricultural leaderKola Masha is the founder of Babban Gona, the first for-profit social enterprise in history to be awarded the prestigious Skoll Award, due to its financial sustainability and highly scalable impact. The organization is part-owned by the farmers they serve.
Why you should listen
At Babban Gona, Kola Masha oversees Nigeria's largest corn producing enterprise through a program that franchises thousands of mini corn farmer cooperatives across northern Nigeria, increasing the profitability of the smallholder farmers by three times above the national average. This dramatic increase in net income is accomplished by delivering an integrated holistic package of training, farm inputs and marketing services, on credit. Babban Gona has been able to deliver this credit while maintaining one of the highest repayment rates in the world, currently above 99.9 percent. The project was created to attract youth to agriculture and away from the looming instability of extremist groups.
Prior to moving back home to Nigeria, Masha held multiple leadership roles in leading global organizations, including General Electric and Abiomed. Upon moving home to Nigeria, he gained extensive public and private sector experience as a Senior Advisor to the Nigerian Federal Minister of Agriculture and as CEO of a subsidiary of the Notore Group, one of the country's leading agricultural conglomerates.
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