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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
Welcome to 2020: Re-evaluate, renew and realign
13 Jan 2020by Yemi Adeyeye
Welcoming a new YPARD Steering Committee member: Marina Cherbonnier
08 Jan 2020by Pius Hiwe
Breaking through leadership: A practical perspective
31 Dec 2019by Kimberly Chen
Future of maize: Introduce hybrid varieties
27 Dec 2019by Dinesh Panday
Regional consultative meeting on biodiversity mainstreaming
25 Dec 2019by Aastha Bhusal
Welcoming the new YPARD Belgium communications focal point Ángela Patricia Guerrero Castillo
17 Dec 2019by Stacy Hammond
Enhancing the sustainability of agriculture and making it a noble profession
12 Dec 2019by Etienne Niyigaba
The school farm curriculum
09 Dec 2019by Wendel Georges
Welcoming the new YPARD Belgium representative: Michael Ruggeri
02 Dec 2019by Stacy Hammond
Introducing the school farm program
25 Nov 2019by Wendel Georges
Asian-African Youth Festival 2019: All for one goal
19 Nov 2019by Rubaya Nasrin
Food security: The role of youth
15 Nov 2019by Shah Khalid
Rethinking, reinventing and retooling the RNE (entry 2)
13 Nov 2019by Gabriel yves Bader
Rethinking, reinventing and retooling the RNE (entry 1)
13 Nov 2019by Gabriel yves Bader
The Agri-Clinic strengthening Rural Knowledge Network
12 Nov 2019by Kafui Kwesi Agbe
Harnessing opportunities in crop value chains for increased productivity
08 Nov 2019by Akinbowale Showemimo
Welcoming YPARD project intern: Wendel Georges
07 Nov 2019by Pius Hiwe
Welcoming YPARD project intern: Gabriel Yves Badr
06 Nov 2019by Pius Hiwe
YPARD interns on a mission: Youth in agroecology
06 Nov 2019by Pius Hiwe
Politics: What’s the young got to do with it?
31 Oct 2019by Gabriel yves Bader
A brewing crisis in Assam’s tea sector
29 Oct 2019by Parashram Jakappa Patil
Scoring GOALS: My journey in the fight against global hunger
26 Oct 2019by John Olabisi Agboola
YPARD Armenia and YPARD Ukraine meet up highlights: business ideas for rural development
16 Oct 2019by Kristina Kuznetsova
Gaining skills, sharing knowledge and building networks
16 Oct 2019by Bledar Meta
Enough talk, let´s act - engaging youth in agriculture
15 Oct 2019by Stacy Hammond
Welcoming the new YPARD Azerbaijan communications focal point Ramil Azmammadov
01 Oct 2019by Stacy Hammond

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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.