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Welcoming the new YPARD Nigeria representative: Eric Nyikwagh
19 Feb 2018by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Welcoming the new YPARD Nepal communications focal point: Nikita Bhusal
19 Feb 2018by Pius Hiwe
Welcoming the new YPARD Nepal representative: Abhishek Khadka
19 Feb 2018by Pius Hiwe
Stepping out boldly into the bright future
07 Feb 2018by Pilirani Tendai Khoza
Youth in agriculture: The Serbian story
07 Feb 2018by Julijana El omari
EIT Food Entrepreneurship Winter School
05 Feb 2018by Anna Mkhitaryan
The key to career success for youth transformation
01 Feb 2018by Jabulani Nyengere
How can African youth transform the agricultural sector?
31 Jan 2018by Sithembile Ndema Mwamakamba
New challenges to food security in Zambia
30 Jan 2018by Mzeziti Mwanza
Welcoming the new YPARD Netherlands communications focal point: Maya Turolla
29 Jan 2018by Pius Hiwe
Announcing the YPARD visionaries for Strategic Planning Meeting 2018
26 Jan 2018by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Water scarcity and how we can reduce water pollution
24 Jan 2018by John Hawthorne
Call for participation :Youth uniting sectors to halt deforestation capacity development workshop
22 Jan 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
Biomass energy influence environmental footprint
19 Jan 2018by Sarah Daren
Vegetation: the future of bridge defense
19 Jan 2018by Ryan Ayers
Discovering the latest version of me through mentorship
09 Jan 2018by Alesia Ofori
Sustainable Fisheries for Enhanced Water Resources in Armenia (SFEWRA) project
08 Jan 2018by Lilith Musinyan
The story behind happy bananas
04 Jan 2018by Yana Vladimirovna Perevoshchikova
Teaching Indonesian youth about sustainable practices through eco-literacy
04 Jan 2018by Stacy Hammond
Tell us how we can support you better in 2018
04 Jan 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
Unknown continent – one should never cease to explore
03 Jan 2018by Yana Vladimirovna Perevoshchikova
Finding resources to start your agricultural production
03 Jan 2018by Julijana El omari
Bringing in 2018!
03 Jan 2018by Courtney Paisley
Tips for starting out in farming
27 Dec 2017by Sonya Harris
Moving towards open access database
27 Dec 2017by Asmita Nagila
An inside look at first YPARD student research symposium
26 Dec 2017by Nikita Bhusal
YPARD Egypt participates in AARINENA and GFAR workshop
21 Dec 2017by Assem Reda Abu hatab
Young farmers: How they farm in Serbia?
20 Dec 2017by Julijana El omari
Welcoming the new YPARD Moldova representative: Cristina Conea
20 Dec 2017by Stacy Hammond
Must have tools for vegetable gardening
17 Dec 2017by Tim Moore

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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.