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"Making agriculture attractive for the African Youth" - An interview with the YPARD Director
10 Nov 2018by Thembani Malapela
Want to run a mentoring program? This toolkit will show you how
07 Nov 2018by Michelle Kovacevic
Scaling-up small agri-food production system for zero hunger
05 Nov 2018by Ayodeji Rauf
Youth farm boot camp for the vulnerable
05 Nov 2018by Chinonso Bathlomeo Agbo
Impact of value addition on African agriculture
05 Nov 2018by Eric Terver Nyikwagh
When I grow up I want to be a scientist
05 Nov 2018by Hana Voca
YPARD Serbia - Creating market space for young farmers through partnership
30 Oct 2018by Julijana El omari
Closing the Generation Gap, Investment and Youth
23 Oct 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
Beyond selfies: African youth vow to restore the continent’s landscapes
21 Oct 2018by Cathy Watson
Welcoming the new YPARD Director: Yemi Adeyeye
16 Oct 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
Beauty with an agricultural purpose
10 Oct 2018by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Agro-Connect: Tackling Youth Challenges in Agriculture
08 Oct 2018by Julian Akinfolarin Akinremi
Youth volunteerism: building capacity among young people in agriculture
08 Oct 2018by Chinonso Bathlomeo Agbo
Building support system among rural farmers in Africa
08 Oct 2018by Chinonso Bathlomeo Agbo
Building resilience among rural farmers in Nigeria
05 Oct 2018by Chinonso Bathlomeo Agbo
Water Conservation: Key to Sustainable Food Production
05 Oct 2018by Chinonso Bathlomeo Agbo
Restoring hope through the landscape and making restoration possible
05 Oct 2018by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
A brighter future: Youth engagement along agricultural value chains
05 Oct 2018by Majid Oshole-imodu Tokurah
Inclusive value-chain development: place for women and youth
29 Sep 2018by Kristina Kuznetsova
Boosting agricultural development in sub-Saharan Africa
28 Sep 2018by Kambaji Orphe
YPARD Café: A conversation on climate smart agriculture in Nepal
28 Sep 2018by Aayush Raj Dhakal
Agri-cooperatives and institution for rural development
10 Sep 2018by Cristina Conea
Nagarkrishi: Social entrepreneur initiative for better urban food and health
09 Sep 2018by Abu Yousuf Shihab
YPARD Nepal participates in campaigning for conservation workshop
09 Sep 2018by Subash Belbase
Welcoming the YPARD Switzerland representatives: Caroline Otto and Marnie Pannatier
07 Sep 2018by Stacy Hammond
Young people revaluing rural gastronomy
04 Sep 2018by Flor de maría Prado rivera
YPARD Chela: An expression of YPARD Café the Peruvian way
04 Sep 2018by Flor de maría Prado rivera
From Andes to Appalachian: YPARD represented at Community Solutions Program 2018
04 Sep 2018by Natalia Lozano broncales
YPARD Serbia: Creating partnerships to better the position of young farmers
03 Sep 2018by Julijana El omari
Empowering Ghana’s young entrepreneur farmers to start cocoa farms
03 Sep 2018by Violette hilda Nalutaaya

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Youth success stories

5 years of YPARD: a life-changing journey

"Being a YPARD representative gave me so many empowering opportunities, but also a chance to empower others" Testimonial by Ivana Radic Jean highlighting her experience and journey in working with youth in agriculture within the YPARD Serbia community since February 2013.

YPARDian bags home the 2017 SFIAR Master Thesis award!

In 2017, YPARD member, Sebastian Mengel, was the recipient of the Master Thesis award for his collaborative research with YPARD, HAFL and CGIAR CRP drylands program on agricultural livelihoods of rural youth in the drylands of Midelt, Morocco.

Good-bye from YPARD Nepal: Creating a space for young leaders

This testimonial by Dinesh Panday highlights his experience in working with youth in agriculture within the YPARD Nepal community since 2012. He is currently a doctoral graduate research assistant (2016-2019) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the former YPARD Nepal country representative.

A season of innovation

The climate-smart irrigation system was designed with the aim of addressing these challenges; by collecting rainwater, transferring it below the soil surface and using it during the time of low rainfall thus making water available and accessible for perennial plants all year round.

Climate resilient agriculture and producer-consumer justice through ICT

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 13 was created to take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts to ensure climate resilient agriculture and ICT based business promotional interventions from producer to consumer level. Youth, therefore, can play a supporting role to increase awareness and promote the agenda of SDG for agricultural sustainability to make sure others are aware of it.

From nowhere to somewhere; YPARD made a way

Marc Ghislain tells about all the changing scenes in his life as a young professional in agriculture: the anxiety in choosing a profession in agriculture and how his engagement with YPARD helped him find his feet in the agricultural sector.

A non-traditional career path

I strongly support and believe in an inclusive and equitable quality education together with lifelong learning opportunities for all. It is very important that we start to facilitate more flexible career paths in science if we want to encourage diversity and creativity. Being a lifelong learner is a value of sustainable self-development. It opens the door to life-changing, rewarding, fulfilling and continuous growth.

Easier said than done: Gender equality and women empowerment

The role of young people in helping shift gender perceptions is paramount. We can no longer employ tradition and culture as excuses for allowing basic inequalities between genders to occur and to keep perpetuating themselves. We need to acknowledge and cherish culture, but also acknowledge that culture is not a static entity and that it can, and must, evolve towards a more equal society.

Believe in sustainability, food security, fight for the hungry: My Credo

In an era where population, technologies and modernization are fast growing, meeting up with the basic food needs of the population worldwide is one of the greatest challenges nations and international institutions are witnessing. Marc Ghislain shares his views on how the young people can be part of the solution and more importantly in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal number two.

La lutte contre la pauvreté : motivation, passion, profession et engagement!

Aimé Kazika describes his engagement with other young people to raise awareness so that they become more involved in the agricultural sector within the African and Congolese context.