Funding Opportunities

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Global Citizens — Waislitz Global Citizen Award 2020
Open until19 May 2019
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CRDF Global — Biorisk Management
Open until29 Apr 2019
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World Bank — Young Professionals Program
Open until30 Jun 2019
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The Association of Commonwealth Universities — Queen Elizabeth Commonwealth Scholarships
Open until26 Jun 2019
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Athens Photo World — International Photojournalism Award
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Allianz — Climate Risk Research Award
Open until02 Sep 2019
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King Boudouin Foundation — Prize for Research on Water Availability
Open until25 Sep 2019
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Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture — Graduate Teaching Assistantships
Open until31 Dec 2019
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Donner Canadian Foundation — Land and Wildlife Conservation
Open until31 Dec 2019
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International Centre for development oriented Research in Agriculture — International Courses for Agricultural Professionals 2020
Open until21 Mar 2019
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International Development Research Center — Research in Community Forestry 2020
Open until04 Jul 2019
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Conservation Action Research Network — Aspire Grant Program 2020
Open until15 Jul 2019
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International Water Center — International Masters Scholarships (Integrated Water Management)
Open until01 Aug 2019
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Online Turf — Scholarship for Agriculture & Horticulture Students
Open until30 Sep 2018
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Lion’s Share — Resilience in Wildlife Community Grants
Open until15 May 2019
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Chrysalis Trust — Grants for Livelihoods Projects
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Global Affairs Canada — Fund for Innovation and Transformation
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Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund — Biodiversity Conservation in the Mountains of Central Asia (Uzbekistan)
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Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund — Biodiversity Conservation in the Mountains of Central Asia (Kazakhstan)
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Africa-EU Renewable Energy Cooperation Programme — Finance Catalyst
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EuroMarine — Fellowship for Early-Career Scientist
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Minor Foundation for Major Challenges — Public Awareness on Climate Change
Open until29 Feb 2020
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WIN WIN Award — Youth Award
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Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund — Biodiversity Conservation in the Mountains of Central Asia
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Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association — Innovation for Sustainability Grant
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Save Our Seas Foundation — Keystone Grants 2020
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World Academy of Sciences — Samira Omar Innovation for Sustainability Prize
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U.S. Department of State — Environmental and Scientific Partnerships to Reduce Deforestation
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Stiftung Entrepreneurship — Citizen Entrepreneurship Competition 2020
Open until31 Jul 2019
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European Commission — Civil Society Development in Argentina

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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.