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E-meet YPARD Network Engagement Coordinator
12 Apr 2021by Glindys virginia Luciano
YPARD Europe is partnering with the AgriSciences Platform (AgriSci-UA)
09 Apr 2021by Stacy Hammond
Deadline extended! YPARD/AGRINATURA e-Competition: Share your BSc or MSc research story!
08 Apr 2021by Stacy Hammond
From Afghanistan to an European Space Agency startup
25 Mar 2021by Juliana Omolola Gold
Welcoming YPARD Network Engagement Coordinator: Glindys Virginia Luciano
23 Mar 2021by Pius Hiwe
e-Competition: your Research your Story!
03 Mar 2021by Stacy Hammond
The best culture is agriculture
01 Mar 2021by Zini Mbita
From flakes to snow: My love story with agriculture
16 Feb 2021by Juliana Omolola Gold
Lessons learned from webinar on publishing scientific articles
09 Feb 2021by Sagar Koirala
YPARD represents youth in the fight against food waste: Horizon2020 proposal has been submitted!
08 Feb 2021by Stacy Hammond
YPARD Europe science slam - Empowering the next generation of change-makers in Danube region
04 Feb 2021by Stacy Hammond
Empowering young farmers through the YPARD Uganda Café
01 Feb 2021by Charles Yoronimu Masereka
Youth4Nature joins Youth In Landscapes Initiative
29 Jan 2021by Pius Hiwe
Call for applications: YPARD Director
27 Jan 2021by Pius Hiwe
Get to know - Hynek Roubík, young expert and enthusiasts in agriculture
26 Jan 2021by Kristyna Havlova
“Make agriculture sexy again” – interview with Hynek Roubík, a young Czech expert in waste management
26 Jan 2021by Kristyna Havlova
When you think of a university, what is the first thing that comes to mind?
25 Jan 2021by Stacy Hammond
The AgriTech project: YPARD Armenia global café
15 Jan 2021by Anna Hovhannisyan
The GYOOGH project at the YPARD Armenia Café
15 Jan 2021by Anna Hovhannisyan
Cross-Border Alliance for Climate-Smart and Green Agriculture in the Black Sea Basin (AGREEN)
15 Jan 2021by Anna Hovhannisyan
YPARD Armenia Café and the IRIS Business Incubator
15 Jan 2021by Anna Hovhannisyan
2020 has yielded to 2021: This, I celebrate
13 Jan 2021by Yemi Adeyeye
Pursuing agriculture as a career – my story
12 Jan 2021by Kristyna Havlova
The Impact of COVID-19 on World Food Security
12 Jan 2021by Kristyna Havlova
IVSA Paklihawa – YPARD Nepal: One Health Webinar Series
10 Jan 2021by Ashwini kumar Jha
Youth engagement in agriculture post-Covid 19: challenges and opportunities
08 Jan 2021by Bledar Meta
Youth as viable pillars of agribusiness growth in Nigeria
22 Dec 2020by Akinbowale Showemimo
YPARD Café Peru –Resilience and innovation stories by young entrepreneurs through pandemics
22 Dec 2020by Pedro Reyna
Global YPARD Café in Rwanda: Insights and highlights
20 Dec 2020by Pacifique Nshimiyimana
How youth can engage in agribusiness post COVID-19
12 Dec 2020by Ayodeji Rauf

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Youth success stories

From the Czech Republic to Asia, Africa and beyond my agricultural story so far!

Introducing Dr. Hynek Roubík, an expert in organic waste management and sustainable technologies, leader of the Biogas Research Team at the Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU), an agriculture enthusiast with a passion for his work and the second-youngest member of the Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences and Bioeconomy platform of the Czech Republic.

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.