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Welcoming YPARD Tanzania representative: Peter Heri Mlay
01 Oct 2020by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Welcoming YPARD Grenada country representative: Bevon Chadel Charles
01 Oct 2020by Stacy Hammond
Call for speakers: young professionals in agrobiodiversity preservation
23 Sep 2020by Dinesh Panday
Be the YPARD voice in the new EFARD Management Team!
22 Sep 2020by Libuška Mercl
Get involved with the Youth Alliance for Zero Hunger
14 Sep 2020by Jim leandro Pil Cano
YPARD: renewed Steering Committee dynamics for deeper international community engagement
01 Sep 2020by Marina Cherbonnier
Tackling food waste in Brazil
24 Aug 2020by Luisa Bresolin Oliveira
Happy Youth Day from YPARD Africa
12 Aug 2020by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
The Cry of a Tree
06 Aug 2020by Zini Mbita
YPARD Rwanda- A Voice on Youth Engagement in Youth Employment
30 Jul 2020by Jean claude Habimana
YPARD partners with SEARCA to unlock youth engagement opportunities
30 Jul 2020by Jim leandro Pil Cano
My YPARD internship experience
29 Jul 2020by Beaula Fadzayi Chipoyera
Combating food insecurity amid COVID-19
27 Jul 2020by Nikita Bhusal
How do we feed the world sustainably?
17 Jul 2020by Beaula Fadzayi Chipoyera
Agriculture, youth and ICT
17 Jul 2020by Beaula Fadzayi Chipoyera
COVID-19 and its impact in the Agricultural sector
17 Jul 2020by Beaula Fadzayi Chipoyera
Call for applicants - YPARD country representatives for LAC region
16 Jul 2020by Wendel Georges
COVID-19 and agriculture in Nepal
15 Jul 2020by Dinesh Panday
Showcasing Innovative African And Asian Talents: Promoting Nutritious Food Initiatives
13 Jul 2020by Nelson Owoicho
Green Jobs: Call for success stories
08 Jul 2020by Yemi Adeyeye
Agriculture and food production of Nepal under COVID-19
08 Jul 2020by Monika Parajuli
Covid-19: A gamechanger in attracting youth to agribusiness
07 Jul 2020by John Olabisi Agboola
Why are women so important to agriculture?
30 Jun 2020by Beaula Fadzayi Chipoyera
Welcoming YPARD Trinidad and Tobago country representative: Enricka Julien
30 Jun 2020by Pius Hiwe
Kenyan smallholder farmers unbowed to COVID-19
24 Jun 2020by John Omondi
E-forum: Possible YouthInAg dynamics post COVID-19
17 Jun 2020by Jim leandro Pil Cano
Agriculture and COVID-19: problems and opportunities
03 Jun 2020by Aastha Bhusal
The contribution and importance of youth engagement in rural development
03 Jun 2020by Bledar Meta
COVID-19, lockdown and food safety
27 May 2020by Omolola Grace Irere
Welcoming YPARD Peru country representative: Marcelita Ponce de León
25 May 2020by Pius Hiwe

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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.