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Young professionals shaping the future of Food Systems: YPARD Strategic Directions 2018 -2021
09 Aug 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
YPARD Serbia: Enhancing visibility through web media
02 Aug 2018by Julijana El omari
Youth and social media: A leverage for agripreneurship
31 Jul 2018by Mahesh Chander
Nominations open for the 2018 Maize-Asia Youth Innovators Awards
30 Jul 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
Highlights of the 2nd YPARD Asia and Pacific conference
27 Jul 2018by Dinesh Panday
Africa on the path of agricultural renaissance
27 Jul 2018by Eric Terver Nyikwagh
Feeding Africa through the TAAT CDTO Program with the youth
26 Jul 2018by Kafui Kwesi Agbe
YPARD Nigeria Café: Young agripreneurs in agribusiness
26 Jul 2018by Majid Oshole-imodu Tokurah
Strengthening Nigerian youth's capacity in agribusiness
26 Jul 2018by Eric Terver Nyikwagh
Of youth, agriculture and entrepreneurship: Finding the nexus
25 Jul 2018by Anushuya Guragain
A case for sustainability from a fellow's perspective
25 Jul 2018by Shweta Adhikari
From Nepal to Nebraska, graduate student's passions rooted in soil
15 Jul 2018by Dinesh Panday
EIT Food RIS fellowship workshop
11 Jul 2018by Cristina Conea
YPARD Serbia goes viral!
09 Jul 2018by Julijana El omari
Accelerating horizontal learning in Bangladesh polders
09 Jul 2018by Evana Rahman
Call for applications : Youth in Landscapes network intern
05 Jul 2018by Emmie Kio Wachira
TROPENTAG 2018: YPARD call of interest
02 Jul 2018by Stacy Hammond
Boosting business opportunities in Eastern Uganda
01 Jul 2018by Carina Juilfs
Ensuring that investments by and for youth in agriculture will come of age
30 Jun 2018by Christiaan Duijst
Welcoming YPARD Solomon Islands country representative: Hika Joseph
29 Jun 2018by Pius Hiwe
UNLEASH 2018: An innovative lab for development ideas
25 Jun 2018by Bikram Nepali
Organic agriculture training at BOKU University
25 Jun 2018by Astghik Sahakyan
The untold YPARDian stories; Ag innovation showcase
21 Jun 2018by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
Call for applicants - YPARD France country representative
18 Jun 2018by Stacy Hammond
Strengthening the enabling environment for responsible investment in agriculture in Guatemala
18 Jun 2018by Christiaan Duijst
Welcoming YPARD Peru country representative: Flor de María Prado
05 Jun 2018by Pius Hiwe
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

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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.