Funding Opportunities

Country

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International Fund for Agricultural Development — Integrated Fish-Rice-Vegetable Food Systems
Open until02 Sep 2019
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Thought for Food — AgriFood Tech Pitching Competition Oceania
Open until04 Sep 2019
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United States Agency for International Development — Uganda Biodiversity For Resilience Activity
Open until05 Sep 2019
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International Women’s Media Foundation — Reporting Grants for Women Journalists
Open until05 Sep 2019
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AuthorAID — Online Course in Research Writing in the Sciences
Open until30 Sep 2019
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Swiss Re Foundation — Leadership Prize for Building Resilient Communities
Open until16 Sep 2019
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Southeast Asian Regional Centre for Tropical Biology — Research Proposals 2020
Open until27 Sep 2019
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IDEX Accelerator — IDEX Fellowship 2020
Open until30 Sep 2019
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Zoos Victoria — Grants for International Conservation 2019-20
Open until30 Sep 2019
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National Geographic Society — Amazon Conservation Capacity
Open until09 Oct 2019
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World Press Photo Foundation — West Africa Visual Journalism Fellowship
Open until15 Oct 2019
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European Commission — SEA-Europe Joint Funding Scheme for Research and Innovation
Open until18 Oct 2019
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São Paulo Research Foundation — International Research Collaboration 3/2019
Open until28 Oct 2019
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Worldwide Universities Network — Research Development Fund 2019
Open until31 Oct 2019
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UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office — Chevening Scholarships 2020-2021
Open until05 Nov 2019
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Schlumberger Foundation — Funding for Women in PhD and Post-Doctoral Studies 2020
Open until07 Nov 2019
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations — World Food Day Poster Contest (Age 5-19)
Open until08 Nov 2019
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Scottish Government — International Development Small Grants 2020
Open until08 Nov 2019
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UK Aid Match — Match Funding for UK Charities
Open until12 Nov 2019
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American Association for the Advancement of University Women — International Fellowships 2020
Open until15 Nov 2019
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MAN Truck & Bus AG — Support for Social Ventures
Open until01 Oct 2019
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Pulitzer Center — Rainforest Journalism Fund
Open until31 Dec 2019
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U.S. Agency for International Development — Power Africa
Open until31 Dec 2019
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Green Climate Fund — Readiness Grants
Open until31 Dec 2019
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IHE Delft Institute for Water Education — Free Online Courses
Open until31 Dec 2019
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Save Our Species — Threatened Species Conservation in Central Asia
Open until05 Aug 2019
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Young Water Solutions — Young Water Fellowship East Africa 2019
Open until18 Aug 2019
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Earth Journalism Network — Mesoamerican Reef Story Grants
Open until21 Aug 2019
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Irish Aid — Ireland-Africa Fellows Programme 2020/21
Open until28 Aug 2019
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Adaptation Fund — Readiness Grants 2019
Open until31 Aug 2019

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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.