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Inclusive business for employment creation and sustainable development in Uganda
15 Sep 2017by Edson Twinamatsiko
Growing vegetables in a tyre
14 Sep 2017by Henrietta Bolanle Ojuri
Tony Elumelu Entrepreneurship Programme 2017
14 Sep 2017by Victor Ben
Water use efficiency: SDG target 6.4
14 Sep 2017by Aadesh Subedi
Make agriculture ‘cool’ to the youth: The 8th GFRAS annual meeting
11 Sep 2017by Mahesh Chander
Join us at Tropentag 2017! YPARD – IAAS workshop on improving the position of youth in agriculture
07 Sep 2017by Stacy Hammond
Online media live chat; #FARAEDSPEAKS to enhance FARA’s visibility
06 Sep 2017by Kofi Kisiedu Acquaye
YPARD Uganda’s executive holds face-to-face meeting
06 Sep 2017by Charles Yoronimu Masereka
The future of agriculture in Nigeria
06 Sep 2017by Eric Terver Nyikwagh
A living dream: Agricultural training in primary schools
05 Sep 2017by Zaake Paul
I know one thing; that I know nothing
05 Sep 2017by Hana Voca
We will never again be as young as we are today!
04 Sep 2017by Diego Guillermo Valencia lópez
Welcoming a new YPARD Steering Committee member: Zhai Lin
03 Sep 2017by Pius Hiwe
Honey-queen 2016 – ambassador of Hungarian honey
01 Sep 2017by Greta Rozmann
SEMA project awarded at the 2017 annual IALB/EUFRAS-conference
01 Sep 2017by Johannes Dreer
I am inspired by diversity!
01 Sep 2017by Seher Gumus
The flight to the light
01 Sep 2017by Yana Vladimirovna Perevoshchikova
Agriculture on AfDB agenda in Uganda
29 Aug 2017by Rufai Issifu
Social Cohesion: The Key to Small Holder Farmers Development
29 Aug 2017by Tapfumanei Danmore Java
GIRSAL to make financing affordable and accessible to farmers
29 Aug 2017by Rufai Issifu
Call for Application: YPARD Nepal On-site Mentorship Program
28 Aug 2017by Dinesh Panday
Unlocking the business opportunities in grasscutter farming
23 Aug 2017by John Olabisi Agboola
The youth’s potential for socio-economic transformation
22 Aug 2017by Charles Yoronimu Masereka
First youth in agribusiness conference in Kenya
21 Aug 2017by Emmanuel Ngore
Youth led agricultural transformation
14 Aug 2017by Mukiibi Shaban
Improving the potatoes and banana value chains
10 Aug 2017by Pacifique Nshimiyimana
Join YPARD’s webinar on strategies to grow your agricultural businesses
09 Aug 2017by Michelle Kovacevic
Plague of jellyfish: The economic and biological effect
07 Aug 2017by Shaimaa Reda Hatab
Welcome to an upgraded YPARD website
07 Aug 2017by Emmie Kio Wachira
The future of ICT in the agri-food sector my EFITA conference experience
07 Aug 2017by Ireti Emmanuel Adesida

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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.