In a context marked by growing demographic pressure and an urgent need to create decent jobs, integrating young people into structuring value chains is a strategic challenge for economic and social stability. This project aimed to rigorously identify concrete opportunities for employment and self-employment in five high-potential value chains: cotton, rice, horticulture, logistics/transport, and IT/digital services. The objective was not only to map promising sectors, but to analyze where and how young people can be sustainably integrated, whether upstream (production), at the intermediate level (processing, transport), or downstream (distribution, digital services). As a consulting firm, CRIHD provided technical coordination for the study, combining in-depth sector analysis, consultations with key stakeholders (companies, professional organizations, public institutions), and collection of field data. The approach made it possible to identify labor-intensive segments, the skills required, barriers to entry, and structural constraintshindering the integration of young people. The analysis highlights that traditional agricultural value chains, when modernized and linked to logistics and digital services, offer significant potential for direct and indirect job creation.Furthermore, the growing integration of IT/digital services into agriculture and logistics is opening up new niches of activity for skilled and entrepreneurial young people. Furthermore, the growing integration of IT/digital services into agriculture and logistics is opening up new niche activities for skilled and entrepreneurial young people . Beyond the diagnosis, the study produced strategic recommendations aimed at guiding professional integration programs and training mechanisms techniques and financing mechanisms towards the most promising and inclusive segments. This mission illustrates a core belief: the issue of youth employment cannot be resolved solely through training, but rather through a detailed understanding of sectoral economic dynamics and real opportunities within value chains.
