Yearning to farm – Youth, agricultural intensification and land in Mkushi, Zambia

• Youth headed households in Mkushi, Zambia have been compared with other households - there are no differences in yields based on age. • Technology use and skills position young households well in agriculture. • IIndependent access to land is necessary to participate in agriculture. • Independent access to land among youth is unusual, however, delaying adulthood and independence. • Parents who deny their children land benefit from selling or renting land to others , distrust their children or want to control them.