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YPARD 2017 Annual Report is out!
04 Jun 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
Agricultural training videos in your language
04 Jun 2018by Evana Rahman
Agribusiness students learn about coops by working with farmers
01 Jun 2018by Artur Harutyunyan
Campaigning for conservation
31 May 2018by Phidel Hazel Arunga
Domesticating the eCapacities Africa Platform in Ghana
31 May 2018by Kafui Kwesi Agbe
Welcoming YPARD South Africa Representative: Tshiamo Dichabe
31 May 2018by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Challenging the frontier of Africa’s agriculture
31 May 2018by Kafui Kwesi Agbe
Foresight4food: Three lessons for better fishing
30 May 2018by Myriam Pérez
Philippines youth-in-agriculture mentoring program
30 May 2018by Maggie Del valle
Propelling the voice of youth - Young farmers in Serbia and EU
24 May 2018by Julijana El omari
Celebrating action for biodiversity: Q&A with a pioneering young conservationist
22 May 2018by Zaake Paul
Call for applicants - Country representative YPARD Switzerland
21 May 2018by Rahel Wyss
Tips for gardening by the moon cycle
16 May 2018by Wiley Geren
Big data management and sharing: a brilliant initiative
11 May 2018by Md rajib Kamal
YPARD Bangladesh participates in Nutrition Olympiad 2018
11 May 2018by Masud Chowdhury
YPARD Nepal participates in Bhairahawa Food Fair
11 May 2018by Subash Belbase
YPARD launched in North-West Nigeria
07 May 2018by Ayodeji Rauf
A letter from Let’s Food to you
04 May 2018by Louison Lancon
Farewell to Courtney Paisley
02 May 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
Tapping into agricultural opportunities
01 May 2018by Miriam Oghenekevwe
Promoting youth agripreneurship in Africa
01 May 2018by Eric Terver Nyikwagh
Welcoming YPARD Serbia country representative: Julijana El Omari
26 Apr 2018by Stacy Hammond
YPARD Nepal participates in Kathmandu Food Fair
23 Apr 2018by Anjali Shrestha
Farmer’s knowledge platform: promotion of innovations in local languages
20 Apr 2018by Evana Rahman
Rise in Nigerian population; an opportunity or a nightmare for agriculture?
20 Apr 2018by Nicholas Ojonugwa Alifa
Agricultural inputs to increase production in Ghana
17 Apr 2018by Sylvester Kwame Osei
A chocolate life – YES lab journey and memories
17 Apr 2018by Yana Vladimirovna Perevoshchikova
Passing on the YPARD mantle
11 Apr 2018by Courtney Paisley
Pension scheme for cocoa farmers to ensure sustainable cocoa production
11 Apr 2018by Sylvester Kwame Osei
To an unsung disruptive leader
11 Apr 2018by Marina Cherbonnier

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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.