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COVID-19's web of neglect: the case of the waste pickers
25 May 2020by Ana Rengel goncalves
EdenWorld TweetChat with the YPARD Director
20 May 2020by Yemi Adeyeye
On COVID-19 and food security: A Brazilian youth’s perspective
15 May 2020by Naína Ariana Souza tumelero
YPARD: a youth movement experience for sustainable food systems?
12 May 2020by Marina Cherbonnier
Unlocking fresh opportunities in agriculture post-COVID
05 May 2020by Farotimi Olaoluwa
Youth engagement in agriculture
05 May 2020by Omolola Grace Irere
Highlights of Webinarthon: Stay home learn more
04 May 2020by Samikshya Pandey
Call for YPARD candidate on the Global Water Partnership Steering Committee
30 Apr 2020by Stacy Hammond
Welcoming YPARD communications coordinator: Ingrid Oliveira
29 Apr 2020by Pius Hiwe
Online game changer course in sustainability
28 Apr 2020by Yana Vladimirovna Perevoshchikova
Chiya Guff: A tea talk
28 Apr 2020by Aadarsha Khatiwada
GFRAS - YPARD call for stories
27 Apr 2020by Ingrid Oliveira
Welcoming the new YPARD Steering Committee Chair: Marina Cherbonnier
23 Apr 2020by Pius Hiwe
Welcoming a new YPARD Steering Committee member: Jorrit Kiewik
23 Apr 2020by Pius Hiwe
GFRAS and YPARD: The dawn of a strategic alliance
19 Apr 2020by Ingrid Oliveira
Food: A universal friend
19 Apr 2020by Eric Terver Nyikwagh
Entrepreneurship and gender-balanced involvement
09 Apr 2020by Omolola Grace Irere
Digital forum: Sharing the YPARD perspective
06 Apr 2020by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Biofertilizer: An entrepreneurial exploration
23 Mar 2020by Umme Habiba
Rwandan agriculture: Is science the lasting panacea?
23 Mar 2020by Jean claude Habimana
Of water, agroecology and the youth
08 Mar 2020by Wendel Georges
Communication for effective youth inclusion
27 Feb 2020by Pius Hiwe
Agriculture of the future
27 Feb 2020by Simon Appeltans
Climate change, the dying world
25 Feb 2020by Omolola Grace Irere
Welcoming YPARD Eswatini Representative: Gcina Dlamini
11 Feb 2020by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Call for applicants - YPARD Austria country representative
04 Feb 2020by Stacy Hammond
Agriculture is not just food but the world around us - 2020 GFFA
04 Feb 2020by Bledar Meta
Expanding horizons and knowledge sharing - my Fulbright experience
29 Jan 2020by Mónika Varga
2020 – The year of same goals but different approach
21 Jan 2020by Julijana El omari
YPARD Africa’s Diary
15 Jan 2020by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye

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Youth success stories

Youthful passion to contribute to sustainable food systems

Charles Masereka Yoronimu's commitment to contributing to building sustainable food systems drives him to be an active agent of youth engagement in agriculture.

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.